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PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE 

NATIONAL    REPUBLICAN 


Held  at  Chicago,  May  16th,  17th  &  18th,  1860. 


FOR  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES, 

ABRAHAM   LINCOLN,  OF  ILLINOIS. 

FOR  VICE-PRESIDENT, 

HANNIBAL  HAMLIN,  OF  MAINE. 


At  12:10  P.  M.,  Wednesday,  May  16,  1860  the 
Dele-gates  ha\Cng  assembled,  the  Convention 
was  called  to  order  by  Hon.  Edwin  D,  Morgan 
of  New  York. 

OPENING  ADDRESS  BT  MR.  MORGAN. 

HON.  EDWIN  D.  MORGAN  of 'New  Yoik,  in 
calling  th«  Convention  to  order,  said  : 

On  the  twenty-second  of  December  last,  the 
Republican  National  Committee,  at  a  meeting 
convened  for  the  purpose  in  the  City  of  New 
York,  issued  a  call  for  a  National  Convention, 
which  I  will  now  read  : 

"A  National  Republican  Convention' will  meet 
at  Chicago  on  Wednesday,  the  16th  day  of  May 
next,  at  twelve  o'clock  noon,  forthe  nomination 
of  candidates  to  be  supported^| President  and 
Vice  President  at  the  nextttlftion, 

"The  Republican  electoral' tbe  several  state?, 
the  members  of  the  people's  party  of  Pennsyl- 
vania and  of  tbe  opposition  party  of  New  Jer- 
sey, and  all  others  who  are  willing  to  co-operate 
with  them  in  support  of  the  candidates  which 
shall  there  be  nominated,  and  who  are  opposed 
to  the  policy  of  the  present  administration,  to 
federal  corruption  and  usurpation,  to  tbe  ex- 
tension of  slavery  into  the  territories,  to  the 
new  and  dangerous  political  doctrine  that  the 
Constitution  of  its  own  force  carries  slavery 
into  all  the  territories  of  the  United  State?,  to 
the  opening  of  the  African  slave  trade,  to  any 


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inequality  of  rights  among  citizens;  and 
who  are  in  favor  of  the  immediate  admis- 
sion of  Kansas  into  the  Union,  under  tbe  Con- 
stitution recently  adopted  by  its  people, 
of  restoring  the  federal  administration  to 
a  system  of  rigid  economy  and  to  the 
principles  of  Washington  and  Jefferson, 
of  maintaining  inviolate  the  rights  of  the  States 
and  defending  the  soil  of  every  State  and  Terri- 
tory from  lawless  invasion,  and  of  preserving 
the  integrity  of  this  Union  and  the  supremacy 
of  the  Constitution  and  laws  passed  in  pursu- 
ance thereof  against  the  conspiracy  of  the  lead- 
ers of  a  sectional  partv,  to  resist  the  majority 
principle  as  established  in  this  government  even 
at  the  expense  of  its  existence — are  invited  to 
send  from  each  State  two  delegates  from  each 
Congressional  district,  and  four  delegates  at 
large  to  the  Convention." 

EDWIN  D.  MORGAN,  New  York  Chairman. 
JOSEPH  RABTLETT,  Maine.         JAMES  RITCHEY,  Ind. 
GEO.  G.  KOOG,  is.  H.  KOHJAN  H.  JUDD.  Illinois. 

ZACHABIAH  CHANDLER,  Mich. 

JOHN  II.  TWEEDY,  WIs. 

ALEX.  H.  RAMSEY,  Minn. 

ANDREW  J.  MEVENB,  Iowa. 

ASA  8.  Jonjis,  Missouri. 

MABTIN  K. CoKWAY.Kaogai'. 

LEWIS  CLEFHANE,  D.  ot  C. 

WILLIAM  M.  ('HACK,  R.  I. 

O.  P.  SCHOOLFIELD.  Teen. 


LAWRENCE  bRA'NABD,  Vt. 
JOHN-  Z.  QOOWICK,  Mass. 
GIDEON  WELLES,  Conn. 
THOMAB  WILLIAMS,  Pcnn. 
GXOBOE  HARRIS.  Md. 
AL7KEO  CALDWELL,  Va. 

T  BOX  AS  SPOOXXR,  Ohio. 

« 'Assies  M.  CLAY,  Ky. 
JAMM  SHEBKAN,  N.  J. 
CORNELIUS  COLE,  Cal. 


E.  D.  WILLIAM*,,  Del. 


In  compliance  therewith,  the  people  hare 
sent  representatives  here  to  deliberate  upon 
measures  for  carrying  into  effect  the  object*  o 
the  call. 


Usage  Las  made  it  my  duty  to  take  the  pre- 
liminary step  towards  organizing  the  Conven 
tion — a  convention  upon  the  proceedings  of 
which,  pei  mil  me  to  say,  the  most  momentous 
results  are  depending.  No  body  of  men  of 
equal  number  was  ever  clothed  with  greater 
responsibility  than  those  now  within  the  hear 
ing  of  my  voice.  You  do  not  need  me  to  tell 
you.  gentlemen,  what  this  responsibility  is. 
While  one  portion  of  the  adherents  of  the  Na- 
tional Administration  are  endeavoring  to  insert 
a  slave  code  into  the  party  platform,  another 
portion  exhibits  its  readiness  to  accomplish 
the  same  result  through  the  action  of  the  Su- 
preme Court  of  the  United  States  [iipplausel ; 
willing  by  indirection  to  do  that  which,  if  done 
directlv,  would  bring  a  blush  even  to  the  cheek 
.  of  modern  Democracy.  [Cheers  and  laughter.] 

While  these  and  other  stupendous  wrongs, 
absolutely  shocking  to  the  moral  sentiment  of 
the  country,  are  to  be  fastened  upon  the  people 
by  the  party  in  power,  if  its  leaders  are  able  to 
bring  the  factious  elements  that  compose  it  into 
any  degree  of  unanimity,  there  seems  left  no 
ray  of  hope  except  in  the  good  sense  of  this 
Convention.  [Great  applause.] 

Eet  me  then  invoke  you  to  act  in  a  spirit  of 
harmony,  that  by  the  dignity,  the  wisdom  and 
the  patriotism  displayed  here  you  may  be  en- 
abled to  enhst  the  hearts  of  the"  people,  aod  to 
strengthen  them  ia  the  faith  that  yours  is  the 
constitutional  party  of  the  country,  and  the 
only  constitutional  party;  that  you  a-e  actu- 
ated by  principle,  and  that  you  will  be  guided 
by  the  light  and  by  the  example  of  the  fathers 
of  the  Republic.  [Renewed  cheers.] 

Fortunately  you  are  not  required  to  enun- 
ciate new  and  untried  principles  of  government 
This  has  been  well  and  wisely  done  by  the 
statesmen  of  the  Revolution.  [Applause.] 
Stand  where  they  stood,  avowing  and  main- 
taining the  like  objects  and  doctrines:  then 
will  the  end  sought  be  accomplished ;  the 
Constitution  and  the  Union  be  preserved,  and 
the  government  be  administered  by  patriots 
and  statesmen. 

For  Temporary  President  I  now  nominate 
Hon.  David  Wilinot,  of  Pennsylvania.  [Great 
and  prolonged  applause.]  Those  that  are  in 
favor  of  the  nomiuation  of  Mr.  Wilmot  for  tem- 
porary presiding  officer  will  say  aye. 

The  nomination  being  confirmed  by  the 
unanimous  voice  of  the  Convention  amid  great 
applause,  the  Chair  nominated  Judge  Wm.  L. 
Marshall,  of  Maryland,  and  Gov.  C.  F.  Cleve- 
land, of  Connecticut,  to  wait  upon  the  presiding 
officer  and  conduct  him  to  his  seat. 

The  temporary  Chairman  was  then  conducted 
to  the  chair  by  the  committee,  amid  loud  cheer- 
ing, Gov.  Cass  Cleveland  introducing  him  as 
follows : 

Permit  me  to  introduce  to  this  Convention  a 
gentleman  whose  name  is  known  to  every  lover 
of  liberty  throughout  this  land — the  Hon.  David 
Wilmot,  the  man  who  dares  to  do  the  right,  re- 
gardless of  consequences.  With  such  men  for 
our  leaders,  there  is  no  such  word  as  fail.  [Vo- 
ciferous cheering.] 

THE  CHAIRMAN'S  INAUGURAL. 

HON.  DAVID  WILMOT,  on  taking  the  chair, 
spoke  as  follows:  I  have  no  words  in  which 
properly  to  express  my  sense  of  the  honor — acd 
the  undeserved  honor,  I  think  it  is — of  being 
called  upon  to  preside  temporarily  over  the  de- 
liberations of  this  Convention. 

I  shall  not  attempt  a  tas-k  which  I  feel  inade- 
quate to  perform.  Be  sure,  gentlemen,  that  I 
am  not  msensibla  to  this  high  and  undeserved 


!  honor.  I  shall  carry  the  recolltc'ion  of  it,  and 
of  your  manifestation  of  partiality  with  me  un- 
til the  day  of  my  death. 

It  is  not  necessary  for  me,  fellow  citizens, 
gentlemen,  delegates,  to  remind  you  of  the  im- 
portance of  the  occaiion  tbat  has  called  this  as- 
semblage together ;  nor  of  the  high  duties  whirfh 
devolve  upon  you.  A  great  sectional  and  aris- 
tocratic party,  or  interest,  has  for  years  domin- 
ated with  a  high  hand  over  the  political  affairs 
of  this  country.  That  interest  has  wrested, 
and  is  row  wresting,  all  the  great  powers  of 
this  government  to  the  one  object  of  the  exten- 
sion of  slavery.  It  is  our  purpose,  gentlemen — 
it  is  the  mistion  of  the  Republican  party  and 
the  basis  of  its  organization,  to  resist  this  policy 
of  a  sectional  interest.  It  is  our  mission  to 
restore  th  s  government  to  its  original  policy, 
and  place  it  auain  in  tbat  rank  upon  which  our 
fathers  organized  and  brought  it  into  existence. 
It  is  our  purpose  and  our  policy  to  resist  these 
new  Constitutional  dogmas,  that  slavery  exists 
by  virtue  ot  the  Constitution  wherever  the  ban- 
ner of  this  Union  floats. 

It  is  our  purpose  to  restore  the  Constitution  to 
its  original  meaning;  to  give  to  it  its  true  inter- 
pretation; to  read  that  instrument  as  our  fa- 
thers read  it.  [Applause]  That  instrument 
was  not  ordained  and  established  for  the  pur- 
pose of  extending  slavery  within  the  limits  of 
th's  country ;  it  was  not  ordained  and  estab- 
lished for  the  purpose  of  giving  guarantees 
and  securities  to  that  institution.  Our  fathers 
regarded  slavery  as  a  blot  upon  this  country. 
They  went  down  into  their  graves  with  the 
earnest  hope  and  confident  belief,  that  but  a  few 
more  years  an&  that  blot  would  be  extinguished 
from  our  laud.  •  [Much  applause.]  This  was  toe 
faith  ia  which  they  died.  [Applause.]  Had  the 
proposition  been  presented  to  them  in  the  early 
conflicts  of  the  Devolution,  or  outside  of  that 
grand  movement,  that  they  were  ca'led  upin  to 
endure  the  hazards,  trials  and  sacrifices  of  that 
long  and  perilous  contest  for  the  purpose  of  es- 
tablishing on  this  continent  a  great  slave  em  pir-% 
not  one  of  them  would  have  drawn  his  sword  in 
such  a  cause.  [Great  applause.] 

No  citizens  !  This  republic  was  established 
for  the  purpose  of  securing  the  guarantees  of 
liberty,  ofjustice  and  of  righteousness  to  the 
people  and  to  their  posterity.  That  was  the 
treat  object  with  which  the  revolution  was 
fought;  these  were  the  purposes  for  which  the 
Union  and  the  Constitution  were  formed. 
Slavery  is  sectional.  Liberty  national.  [Im- 
mense applause.] 

Fellow  citizens:  Need  I  remind  this  intelli- 
gent and  vast  audience ;  need  I  call  to  mind  to 
the  intelligent  gentlemen  who  represent  the 
various  States  represented  upon  this  floor,  mani- 
ftstitions  of  lawless  violence,  of  tyranny  such 
as  the  world  never  saw  in  a  civilized  and  Christ- 
ian laud  that  is  manifested  by  this  spirit  of 
slavery.  Whosifcaights  are  safe  where  slavery 
h:is  the  power  I9|ptrample  them  nnder  foot? 
Who  to-day  is  not  more  free  to  utter  bis  opin- 
ions within  the  empire  of  Russia,  or  under  the 
shadow  of  the  despotism  of  Austria  than  he  is; 
within  the  limits  of  the  slave  States  of  this 
republic? 

Will  their  tyranny  be  confined  tothose  States 
where  they  have  the  power  to  enforce  it  upon 
us?  [Voices — "No!  never P'|  We  owe  the 
liberty  which  to-day  we  enjoy  in  the  free 
States  to  the  absence  of  slavery.  And,  fellow 
citizen?,  shall  we,  in  building  up  this  great  Em- 
pire of  ours,  in  fulfilling  that  high  and  sacred 
trust  imposed  upon  us  by  our  fathers — shall  vre 
support  this  blighting,  this  demoralizing  iasti- 


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tutlon  throughout  the  vast  extent  of  our  bor 
ders?  [Voices,  loudly— "No!"]  Or  shall  we 
preserve  this  land  as  a  free  land  to  our  posterity 
forever?  These  are  the  principles  for  which 
the  Republican  party  is  struggling. 

Fellow  citizens,  the  safety  of  our  liberty,  the 
security  of  all  we  hold  valuab'e,  demands  that 
we  should  take  possession  of  this  goveinment 
and  administer  it  upon  those  broad  Constitu- 
tional doctrines  that  were  recognized  for  the 
first  sixty  years  of  the  existence  of  our  govern 
ment— that  were  recognized  by  Washington,  by 
Jefferson,  by  Adams,  by  Madison,  bv  Monroe, 
by  Adams  the  younger,  by  Jackson,  by  Van 
Buren,  even  down  to  the  time  of  Polk,  when 
this  new  dogma  was  started,  that  the  Constitu- 
tion was  established  to  guarantee  to  slavery 
perpetual  existence  and  unlimited  empire. 

Hoping,  fellow  citizens,  that  a  spirit  of  patri- 
otism and  harmony  will  guide  us  to  a  fortunate 
re&ult  in  our  deliberations,  I  am  now  ready  to 
enter  upon  'he  duties  which  have  been  assigned 
to  me.  [Great  Applause.] 

TEMPORARY  SECRETARIES. 

Mr.  TIJOMASSrOONER,  of  0.— I  move,  sir, 
that  Mr.  Frederick  Hassarreck  of  Ohio,  Mr.l'heo- 
dore  Pomeroy  of  New  York,  and  Mr.  Henry  T. 
Blow  of  St.  Louis,  be  elected  to  act  as  Tempo- 
rary Secretaries. 

The  nominations  being  confirmed  by  the 
unnnimous  voice  of  the  Convention,  those  gen- 
tlemen took  the  posts  assigned  them. 

The  CHAIR— I  will  now  introduce  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Humphrey,  of  this  city,  who  will  make  a 
prayer. 

PRAYER: 

Bv  Rev.  Z.  HUMPHREY,  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church. 

Oh,  Lord,  our  Father,  Thou  art  great  and  greatly  to  be 
prai?ed.  We  come  before  Thv  Thrrre  to  worship  and  also 
to  learn  Thy  will.  We  invoke  Thy  presence  and  Thy  b  ess- 
Ing,  as  we  gather  beneath  this  roof  to-day.  We  praise  Thee 
for  what  Thou  art,  and  for  what  Thou  hast  done  for  us. 
Veri'y,  the  liuei  have  fallen  to  u»  in  p  easant  places,  and  we 
liave  a  goodly  heiitage.  Thou  hast  strengthened  the  bars 
of  our  gates,  and  placed  our  children  within  them.  Thouhas 
made  peace  in  our  borders,  and  filled  us  with  the  finest  of 
the  wheat.  Tnou  ha^t  not  dealt  so  bv  any  nation.  £  s  for 
Thy  judgments,  we  have  not  known  them ;  and  yet  we  con- 
fess that  we  have  deserved  to  snff  r,  for  we  have  s'nned 
against  Thee.  We  t  nt  reat  1  hy  f  rgiveness  for  all  our  trans- 
gressions, ard  Thy  protection  from  all  consequences  of  sin. 
We  pray  for  our  common  country.  We  ask  that  Thr.u  wilt 
deliver  us  f.om  all  the  evil  to  which  we  are  exposed,  aid 
and  that  'I  hou  wilt  make  u<  to  shake  off  and  put  away  a'j 
those  e«ils  which  we  are  too  apt  to  chtrish.  Wilt 
Thou  bless  our  ru'crs,  and  teach  them  ta  govern 
in  the  fear  of  Gxl  and  In  the  love  of  man. 
Wilt  thou  deliver  u?  from  corruntion,  flora  cppress.on 
from  violence,  and  from  selflih  ambition.  Show  us  the  way 
of  rescuing  the  oppressei  from  lhehtu=eof  bondage,  a  d 
of  making  tM.s  country  truly  and  cons.stently  free.  We 
crave  thy  blessing  upon  this  Convention,  and  pray  that 
thou  wilt  enable  all  those  wbo  are  lore  gatherel,  to  act, 
amid  the  excitements  of  the  day,  a^  feeling  their  responsi 
bilttyio  their  fellow  men,  and  as  knowing  that  they  will 
oceday  statdbef.  re  thee.  Wilt  Thcu  bless  us  in  all  that 
we  do.  Wilt  Thcu  rule  amid  all  the  conflicts  of  opinion 
and  the  strifes  of  parties  ;  and  may  the  issue  be  for  Thy 
glory,  and  tor  our  go  d.  May  tlure  he  no  strife,  but  that 
of  brethren  loving,  while  yet  in  opinion  disagreeing.  Let 
not  the  p'oughih  ire  of  division  drive  through  our  fair  land. 
May  we  li«e  as  a  Christian  country  ;  aad  though  we  put 
r,ot  our  trust  in  princes,  nny  we  be  that  happ/  l.>nd  wheie 
God  is  the  Lord—which  we  ask  through  Jesus  Chris%  our 
Saviour:  Anea. 


COMMITTEE  OX  PERMANENT  ORGANIZATION. 

II  R.  JUDD.of  Illinois.  —  I  desire  to  offer  a  res- 
olution, which  I  will  read  as  I  stand  in  my 
place.  I  move  you  sir,  that  a  committee,  con- 
sisting of  one  delegate  from  each  State  and  Ter- 
ritory represented  in  this  Convention,  be  elected 
by  the  delegates  thereof,  who  shall  report  offi- 
cers to  this  Convention  for  a  permanent  organ- 
ization. 

Motion  submitted  and  adopted. 

MR.  JUDI)  —  I  move  you  that  the  States  be 
called  in  their  order. 

Motion  adopted. 

The  several  States  were  then  called,  and  the 
committee  was  made  up  as  follows  : 
frame  .....  .......  LEONARD  ANDREWS. 

rermoii-  ...............  HUGH  L.  HENRY. 

A    ffim,,shire.  .....  AA.KON    H.  CKftGIN. 

LINUS  B. 


........... 

CoHmrtirnt   ........  AKTHURB.tJAL.tF. 

Rhode  hlcmcl  ..........  SIMON  H.  GRERNK. 

A»u>for*...,  ....HENRY  H.  VANDYCK. 

Fe-a  Jereej/     .  .........  EPHRAIM  MAKSH. 

re.nnnjloiinia  ........     T.  J.  COFFEY. 

Z)e/a.«ire  .....     ......  JOSHUA  T.  HEfL. 

Mar-utand  .......  JAMES  JEFF  HIES. 

Virainia.,..  ....EDWARD  M.  NORTON. 

Q'to  .......  ...........  V.  B.  HORTOJN 

7ft.JfVi.na  ................  P.  A.  HACKLEMAN. 

Mho!*  .......  WILLIAM  KO£>3. 

Hvhiqan  ........  WALTER  W    MURPHY. 

ir,::-,;,,,si;»  ..............  JOHN  P.  McGR-G^H. 

fana  ...........  JAMES  F.  WILSON. 

Minnesota  .............  SiMEON  SMITH. 

Missouri  ...............  ALLKN  HA«ER. 

Aan«M  .................  A.  C.  WILDER. 

CtiK/ornia  ..............  S\MITEL  BELL. 

Oregon  ................  GRANT  JOHNSON. 

Kentucky  ...............  ALLS*  J.  BRISTOW. 

Texan  ..................  M.  T.  E.  C'HANJULER. 

fiflira^a  ...............  O.  H    IRISH. 

D.Columbi*  .......  GEO.  A.  ttlLL. 

A  DELEGATE  from  Kentucky—  Mr.  Presi- 
dent —  I  would  suggest  that  the  names  of  aM 
the  States  be  called.  [Applause  ] 

The  CHAIR—  Tennessee,  Arkansas,  Missis- 
sisippi,  [great  laughter,]  Lousiana,  Ala- 
bama, [laughter  and  hissing,]  Georgia, 
South  Carolina.  [Laughter.]  North  Carolina. 
Florida  (Feeble  hisses  and  much  laughter.)  I 
believe  that  includes  the  names  of  all  the  States. 

COMMITTEE  ON  CREDENTIALS. 


of  New  Hampshire  —  I  move  you 
sir,  that  a  Committee,  consisting  of  one  dele- 
gate from  each  State  and  Territory  represented 
in  this  Convention,  selected  by  the  delegates 
thereof,  be  appointed  who  shall  be  a  committee 
to  act  on  credentials,  rules  and  appointments, 
and  be  instructed  to  make  report  of  the  number, 
name  and  post  office  address  of  each  delegate, 
toge  her  with  rules  for  the  government  ot  this 
Convention. 

A  DELEGATE  from  Indiana—  Divide  that.Let 
us  have  a  committee  on  credentials  and  one  on 
order  of  business. 

Mr.  SPOONER  of  Ohio—  If  I  understand.it  is 
intended  that  we  should  have  two  committees, 
or  it  was  so  suggested  by  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee, and  we  have  acted  in  accordance  witli 
that  suggestion.  I  would  suggest  that  there  be 
simply  a  Committee  on  Credentials. 

'Jhe  CL1A1R—  Will  the  gentleman  from  New 
Hampshire  accept  the  amendment? 

Mr.  BENTON—  I  accept  it. 

Motion  to  appoint  a  Committee  on  Credentials 
was  carried. 

THE  CHAIU—  Shall  the  Chair  call  the  States 
again? 
'M  ANT  VOICES—  Call  the  States. 

The  several  States  were  then  called  and  the 
Committee  was  made  up  as  follows: 

Maine  ..............  RKNSSELAEK  CR&.M. 

f».Ili«,p.-htre  ..........  JA'JOUbtNTON. 


M  t 


TIMOTHY  DAMS. 


Connect''™! E.K.FOSTER. 

hhodr Inland B EM  (EDICT  LA  PHAM. 

Jieu,  York PALMER  V.  KELLOGG. 

JfeioJertei/ MOSi>  F.  (VfiBB 

PeniuyfixMui J  N.  fURVIA.r>CE. 

Delairarr , LKW»8  THOMPSON, 

Maryland W.Vf .  E.  COALE. 

Virginia JACi)B  HOKNBKO  >K. 

Kentucky CH  ABLHS  PENI>L>  Y. 

Ohio... SAMUEL  S'OKEL&Y. 

Indiana. JOHN  K. CRAVENS. 

HKtun* STEPHEN  T.  LOGAN. 

Michigan f  HANOI    QUJNN. 

Witeaiuin H.L.  RANN. 

JWi.     <!.F.  CLAKKS^N. 

Minnesota JOHN  MOJUIS'CK. 

Missouri JAMES  H.GaRUENHIRE. 

Kansas i. WM   A.  PHILLIES. 

febrnslta JOHN  R.  ME«  EDITH. 

California CKAS.   ^ATROUS. 

Oregon JO^I'  &URL1NGAME. 

Texas...' D.  HENDEKgON. 

DM.  Columbia jAMiS  A.  WYSE, 

COMMITTEE  ON  BUSINESS. 

ME.  NOBLE  of  Iowa— I  move  you  sir  that 
there  be  one  delegate  from  each  delegation,  se- 
lected by  the  dele  -ates  themselves,  to  act  as  a 
committee  to  prepare  the  order  of  business  for 
this  convention. 

Motion  adopted. 

The  States  were  the  called  and  the  committee 
made  .up  as  follows : 

tfainf JOHN  L.  STEPHENS. 

JVeic  ffimpshire B.  F.  MARTIN 

Vermont.:.... EDWIN  D.  MASON. 

Massachusetts 8A.ML.  HOOPErt,. 

Connecticut      ... GEO.  H  NOBLE. 

Khodf.  Island NATH.  B.  DURFEE. 

New  York A.  B.  JAMES. 

Vew  Jersey H.  N.  CONGAR. 

Pennsylvania WM.  D.  KBLLY. 

Delaware JOHN  C.  CLARK. 

Maryland WM.  P.  SWING. 

Virginia. JOHN  G.  JACOB. 

tihio R.  M.  CORWINE. 

Keatucfv LOUI^M  DEMBITZ. 

Indiana WALTER  MARCH. 

JHchiqai AUoTIN  BL&1R. 

JUino'i- iHOs  A.  MARSHALL, 

Wisconsin ELISHA  MORROW. 

Minnesota S.  P  JONES. 

Jnwa REUBEN    «OBLE 

Missouri THOS.  FLETOHER. 

California. J.O.  HINCKLfcY. 

Oregon ELI  THAYER. 

Kansas .A.G.  PROCTOR. 

Nebraska SAMUEL  U.  ELBERT. 

D.  (Joumbia JOSEPH  GERliARD. 

Texas G.  MOYERS. 

A  DELEGATE  from  Pennsylvania.     I  move 
that  the  rules  of  the  House  of  Representatives 
be  adopted  for  the  government  of  this  Conven- 
tion until  otherwise  ordered. 
The  motion  was  carried. 
Mr.   MARSH  of  New  Jersey.    I  move  that 
the  Secretary  call  the  names  ot  the  delegates,  in 
order,  as  they  are  called  in  the  Congress  of  the 
United  States;  as  they  are  called,  the  delegates 
from  each  State  to  present  their  credentials. 

Mr.  CARTTER  of  Ohio.  I  supposed  that  we 
had  just  constituted  a  Committee  on  Creden 
tials,  and  my  purpose  for  voting  for  that  Com 
nuttce  was  to  get  rid  of  all  the  labor  of  doing 
their  work.  Now,  it  is  proposed  to  take  the 
work  out  of  their  hands  and  do  it  here  in  the 
Convention.  Having  voted  it  once  to  be  done 
by  the  Committee,  I  do  not  want  it  brought 
back  here,  and  I  shall  vote  against  any  such 
proceeding.  I  move  to  lay  the  motion  on  the 
table. 

Mr.  MARSH.  I  withdraw  the  resolution. 
Mr.  GREELEY  o:'  Oregon.  I  would  like  to 
move  an  amendment  to  that  resolution.  In 
place  of  it  I  move  that  the  roll  of  the  States  be 
DOW  called  over,  and  as  each  is  called,  the  chair 
man  of  that  delegation  present  the  creden 
tials  of  that  delegation  and  if  any  question 
arises  as  to  the  credentials  or  right  of  any  to 
sit  here,  let  it  be  referred  to  the  Committee  on 
Credentials. 


Mr.CARTTER— I  move  an  amendment;  I  move 
to  amend  the  proposition  of  the  gentleman 
from  Oregon  or  New  York,  Mr.  Greetey,  I  am 
not  sure  which,  [laughter],  that  instead  of  each 
delegation  presenting  their  credentials  here, 
;hey  present  them  to  the  Committee  on  Cre- 
dentials. 

Mr.  GREELEY — I  accept  the  amendment  of 
he  gentleman  from  Maryland  or  Rhode  Island, 
[  am  not  particular  which.  [Laughter  and  ap- 
plause ] 

TheC HAIR— The  motion  is  that  the  roll  of  the 
States  be  called,  and  that  the  delegates  of  each 
State  present  the  credentials  of  the  dele- 
gates of  that  Stale  to  the  Chairman  of  the 
Committee  on  Credentials.  Resolution  car- 
ried. 

Mr.  CARTTER— Did  I  understand  the  gentle- 
man to  a^opt  the  amendment  ? 

Mr.  GREELEY— Certainly. 

A  DELEGATE  at  the  south  end  of  tUe  platform 
— I  desire  to  know  who  the  Chairman  of  the 
Committee  on  Credentials  is. 

The  CHAIR — The  Secretary  will  in  a  moment 
announce  the  committee. 

The  CH  AI R  announced  that  the  Committee  on 
Permanent  Organization  would  cceet  immedi- 
ately after  the  adjournment  at  the  Head  Quar- 
ters of  the  National  Committee,  Room  24  Tre- 
mont  House :  also  that  the  Committee  on  Cre- 
dentials would  meet  at  the  Head  Quarters  of  the 
New  Jersey  Delegation  at  the  Richmond 
House. 

MB.  EVARTS  of  New  York— Upon  this  Com- 
mittee of  Credentials  each  State  and  Territory 
has  a  member;  why  should  not,  then,  each 
State  and  Territory  commit  its  credentials  to  its 
member  of  that  Committee,  to  be  presented  to 
it? 

A  VOICE  — "  That's  the  way,"  and  several 
voices  "  agreed." 

Mr.  EVARTS — I  move  accordingly,  that  the 
credentials  of  each  delegation  be  haoded  to  its 
member  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  to  be 
presented  to  that  body. 

A  DELEGATE  of  Ohio— A  resolution  has  al- 
ready passed  requiring  that  the  credentials  be 
committed  to  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee 
on  Credentials,  and  I  rose  to  suggest  that  what 
is  done  by  an  agent  is  done  by  the  party,  and 
without  this  motion  at  all  they  can  pass  them 
through  their  member  to  the  Chairman  of 
the  Committee. 

The  CHAIR— Is  the  gentleman  from  New 
York  satisfied  that  his  resolution  is  covered  by 
the  one  passed? 

Mr.  EVAR1S— Undoubtedly,  if  it  is  under- 
stood that  no  call  of  the  States  is  necessary. 

The  CHAIR — No  call  is  necessary  under  any 
resolution  jet  passed. 

AN  INVITATION. 

The  CHAIR— I  have  received  a  letter,  which 
I  will  read. 

CHICAGO,  May  16, 1860, 
To  the  President  of  the  RepuW'tao  Convention  : 

The  Board  of  Trade  of  this  city  hereby  invite 
the  delegates  to  your  Convention,  and  other  vis- 
itors to  our  city,  to  a  short  excursion  on  Lake 
Michigan ;  the  excursion  to  leave  the  dock 
at  Rush  street  bridge,  near  the  Richmond 
House,  at  five  o'clock  this  afternoon.  [Ap- 
plause.] 

JUDGE  GOODRICH,  of  Minnesota— I  have 
been  requested,  in  behalf  of  the  Board  of  Trade 
of  this  city,  to  elicit,  so  far  as  may  be  by  a  mere 
remark  and  not  a  speech,  what  shall  be  the  sen- 
timent of  this  Convention  touching  that  propo- 
sition from  the  Board  of  Trade. 


A  VOICE— Mr.  Chapman  ! 

MR.  GOODRICH— When  I  cast  my  eye  about 
this  vast  tabernacle,  that  has  been  reared  by  j 
tbe  taste  and  tnunificeuce  of  the  ladies  and 
gentlemen  of  Chicago,  and  which  has  been  ten- 
dered to  the  great  Republican  cause,  without 
money  and  without  price,  [great  applause]  I  ap- 
prehend that  every  delegate  in  this  Convention 
will  respond  aye  to  the  invitation.  I  have  noth- 
ing more  to  sav.  [Great  applause.] 

Mr.  DUDLEY,  of  N.Jersey— I  move  you  that 
the  iuviia'ion  be  icceptsd,  and  that  a  committee 
be  appointed  to  notify  the  Board  «f  Trade  of 
the  acceptance. 

Mr.  GOODRICH-Sir! 

Mr.  DUDLEY,  of  New  Jersey— I  more,  Sir, 
that  there  be  a  committee  of  live  appointed  to 
inform  the  Board  of  Trade  that  we  accept  the 
invitation  for  five  o'clock,  and  that  the  commit- 
tt  e  be  appointed  by  the  Chair. 

DELEGATE  from  Iowa— I  move  you  that  it 
be  embraced  in  that  resolution  that  the  thanks 
of  this  Convention  be  tendered  to  the  Board  of 
Trade  for  their  very  liberal  otter.  Amendment 
accepted  and  resolution  as  amended  adopted. 

A  VOICE— Three  cheers  for  the  ladies  of 
Chicago.  Cheers  given. 

Mr.  HORACE  GREELEY,  of  Oregon— Have 
we  provided  for  a  Committee  on  Platform? 

The  PRESIDENT— We  have  not. 

Mr.  GREELEY— Then  I  move  we  have  a  call 
of  the  States  for  the  purpose  of  appointing  a 
Committee  on  Platform. 

The  PRESIDENT— Will  that  be  in  order  un- 
til after  tbe  permanent  organization? 

Mr.  CART  TBR,  of  Ohio— 1  move  the  appoint- 
ment of  a  Commiitee  of  one  from  each  State  by 
the  respective  delegations  from  the  several 
States,  to  report  resolutions  and  a  Platform, 
and  that  tbe  Committee  be  made  up  in  the  ordi- 
nary manner  by  calling  the  roll  of  the  States. 

The  PRESIDENT— The  gentleman  from  Ore- 
gon has  already  moved  that — 

Mr.  GREELEY— I  withdraw  mine. 

Mr.  S.  P.  OYLER,  of  Ind.ana— I  move  to  lay 
the  motion  on  the  table  until  after  the  perma- 
nent organization. 

Gov.  REEDER,  of  Pennsylvania-Will  tbe 
Chair  inform  the  Conven  ion  what  motion  is  be- 
fore it? 

The  President  stated  the  motion  of  Mr.  Cart- 
ter. 

Gov.  REEDER— I  rise  to  oppose  the  motion. 
It  is  the  business  of  this  Convention  now  to  per- 
fect its  organization.  You  have  appointed 
a  Committee  on  Credentials,  in  the  order  of 
business,  and  on  Permanent  Organization,  and 
because  we  are  not  organized  it  seems  to  me 
improper. 

A  VOICE  (On  the  opposite  side  of  the  house.) 
— Spe«k  louder — we  cannot  hear  you. 

GOV.  REEDER— All  I  have  to  gay  is  not 
worth  talking  to  those  at  the  other  end  of  the 
platform.  1  merely  desire  to  say  that  I  think 
this  motion  at  this  time  is  out  of  place.  It  will 
be  time  enough  to  provide  for  a  platform  and 
resolutions  when  we  shall  have  organized  this 
Convention,  and  we  are  appointing  committees 
DOW  simply  because  we  are  not  organized.  T^is 
matter  of  a  platform  and  resolutions  is  not  a 
preliminary  affair.  It  is  not  at  all  necessary  to 
our  organization,  and  therefore  it  is  upon  the 
same  footing  with  the  nomination  of  a  candi- 
date and  sbou.d  wait  until  the  permanent  and 
perfect  orgacization  of  the  Convention  before 
it  should  be  entered  upon. 

Mr.  CARTTER  — Imadethat  motion  with  the 
view  of  putting  the  Convention  at  work ;  whe- 
ther the  resolution  is  passed  to  day  or  to-mor- 


row, it  will  be  passed  by  the  same  body  of  men 
and  with  the  view  to  tue  declaration  of  their 
sentiments.  It  is  a  laborious  work  and  ought 
to  be  performed  while  the  Convention  is  in  its 
vigor.  The  Chairman  cannot  tail  to  have  re- 
marked the  indisposition  to  labor, when  within  15 
minutes  after  getting  together,  a  pleasure  excur- 
rsion  is  voted  here.  I  hope  it  will  be  a  pleasant 
one,  but  I  think  before  we  take  it  we  had  better 
designate  those  who  will  enter  upon  the  per 
fprmances  of  the  sphere  of  labor  in  this  Conven- 
tion, anrl  we  can  do  it  as  well  now  as  any  time. 

Mr.  ELI  THAYER,  of  Oregon.— I  am  oppos- 
ed to  the  amendment  which  has  been  offered  by 
the  gentleman  from  Pennsylvania.  I  do  not 
consider  that  the  mere  appointment  of  this  Con* 
mittee  is  at  all  inconsistent  with  the  prelimina- 
ry business  of  this  Convention.  Jt  is  not  pro- 
posed and  it  is  not  expected  that  this  commit- 
tee will  report  to  day.  It  is  important,  as  tbe 
gentleman  who  preceded  me  has  said,  that  this 
committee  should  have  ample  time  to  consider 
what  shall  be  the  platform  of  the  Republican 
party  in  the  coming  campaign.  This,  sir,  is  the 
great  harden  of  tbe  work  of  this  Convention, 
and  I  >  ope  there  will  be  no  time  lost  in  appoin- 
ting this  committee,  and  that  they  themselves 
will  lose  no  time  in  the  labor  that  is  entrusted 
to  their  hands  I  am,  therefore,  opposed  to 
this  amendment  which  proposes  delay.  The 
the  States  and  Territories  are  ready  to  name  the 
man  who  shall  constitute  rbr  each  a  member  of 
this  committee.  The  State  of  Oregon  is  ready 
now. 

[Cries  of  "  Question."] 

Mr.  HAZARD,  of  Rhode  Island— The  gen- 
tlemen who  advocate  the  postponement  are 
right  in  theory,  but  it  is  obvious  that  tbe  prac- 
tical operation  of  this  Convention  would  be  re- 
tarded by  a  postponement.  I  hope,  therefore, 
the  motion  to  postpone  will  be  withdrawn. 

GOV.  REEDER— 'ihe  gentleman  says  we  are 
right.  If  we  are  right  why  should  we  be  voted 
down.  It  seems  to  me  that  when  gentlemen 
concede  that  we  are  right,  there  is  generally 
nothing  remaining  to  do  but  to  carry  out  the 
right.  We  are  transgressing  the  right  here, 
and  for  the  purpose  of  what?  For  the  purpose 
of  convenience  and  because  it  can  make  no  dif- 
ference. It  may  make  no  difference  now,  but 
the  time  may  come,  and  will  come,  when  it  will 
make  a  difference,  and  then  this  action  will  be 
cited  as  a  precedent.  I  am  opposed  to  making 
bad  precedents.  I  believe  that  the  only  way  to 
pursue  is,  to  do  it  right  and  injorder.  If  you  ap- 
point a  Committee,  what  is  to  prevent  that  Com- 
mittee from  reporting  to  this  Convention  before 
you  have  made  a  permanent  organization?  And 
if  they  do  so  report,  what  is  to  prevent  a  ma- 
jority of  this  Convention  passing  upon  the  reso- 
lutions and  platform  before  you  are  organized  ? 
Do  the  gentlemen  desire  to  see  that  ?  Do  they 
desire  to  establish  a  precedent  such  as  that, 
which  may  be  used  at  some  great  crises  in  the 
future  for  purposes  of  evil?  It  is  admitted  that 
we  are  right  and  it  seems  to  me  that  there  the 
question  ends. 

Mr.  CARTTER— The  gentleman  fapm  Penn- 
sylvauia  is  begging  a  little  more  than  I  am  will- 
ing  to  grant.  I  do  not  feel  that  the  first  move- 
ment is  right.  There  is  no  such  concession  in 
this  quarter  of  the  hall.  [Loud  cries  of  "  ques- 
tion, which  interrupting  the  speaker,  he  took 
his  seat.] 

The  motion  of  Mr.  Oyler  of  Indiana  to  lav 
over  the  motion  to  appoint  a  Committee  on 
Platform  and  Resolutions  until  after  the  perma- 
nent organization  of  the  Convention,  was  then 
put  to  vote  and  lost. 


JUDGE  HOGEBOOM  (of  New  York)— I  move 
to  amend  the  motion  to  appoint  a  Committee 
on  Pla'form  and  Resolutions,  by  adding,  "  that 
the  Committee  report  as  soon  as  convenient 
after  the  permanent  organization  of  the  Con- 
vention." 

Mr.  CARTTER — I  accept  the   amendment. 

Mr.  OYLER  (of  Indiana)— We  have  al- 
ready appointed  a  Committee  on  Cre- 
dentials, and  for  what?  To  know 
authoritatively  and  legally  who  have  a  right  to 
a  seat  upon  this  floor.  Now,  Sir,  we  are  going 
on  to  provide  for  the  most  important  thing  that 
this  Convection  will  do,  except  the  designation 
of  the  man  who  shall  bear  our  standard.  I 
shall  not  attempt  to  say  that  there  is  one  man 
on  this  floor  not  legally  entitled  to  his  seat,  but 
we  have  no  evidence  of  the  fact.  It  is  true,  we 
have  entered  upon  this  floor  and  have  arranged 
ourselves  at  tbe  different  points  which  we  de- 
signated by  tbe  i  ames  of  the  States,  and  the 
fair  presumption  is  that  the  men  who  fill  these 
seats  are  honestly  entitled  to  them  ;  but  that  is 
no  proof  of  the  fact,  and  I  undertake  to  say 
that  this  proceeding  is  against  all  precedent, 
and  a  bad  precedent  to  be  set  by  a  Republican 
Convention.  Why  this  haste  ?  We  will  "work 
in  haste  and  repent  at  leisure."  What  ha  m 
can  be  done  by  deferring  this  until  after  the 
Committee  on  Permanent  Organization  report, 
and  the  Convention  organizes  itself  as  a  Re- 
publican National  Convention?  We  are  not 
that  yet.  I  hope  that  delegates  will  consider ; 
that  they  will  stop.  Let  us  be  organized  before 
we  do  or  undertake  to  do  the  most  important 
work  we  bave  got  to  accomplish. 

Mr.  GREELEY — If  there  is  any  question  here 
88  to  the  right  i.f  any  delegation  on  this  floor, 
1  am  willing  that  this  matter  should  Lot  be 
urged.  But  if  there  is  none,  then  let  us  have 
this  Committee  appointed.  It  will  take  thirty- 
six  hours  for  the  Committee  to  prepare  their  re 
port,  and  the  Committee  should  be  appointed 
now  so  they  can  have  full  opportunity.  If 
there  is  any  question  as  to  the  right  of  any 
delegates,  we  will  waive  it. 

Gov.  BOUT  WELL  (of  Massachusetts) -The 
first  thing  tor  us  is  to  be  right.  We  are  assem- 
bled not  for  deliberation,  but  for  organization. 
Let  us  organize  and  then  deliberate,  and  until 
we  have  perfected  our  organization,  it  will  be  a 
dangerous  precedent  to  set  up  here  with  refer- 
ence to  a  new  party  that  is  organized 
for  the  government  of  this  country, 
through  a  generation  to  establish  a  precedent, 
which,  when  contestants  come  here  from  the 
Pacific  and  the  south,  will  lead  to  difficulties  on 
the  door.  We  have  time  enough.  Betterdevote 
it  to  the  organizatiin  of  this  convention  rather 
than  to  an  excursion  ;  thankful  as  we  are  for 
the  hospitality  of  the  city,  we  have  a  greater  du- 
ty to  perform  to  this  country.  I  move  to  lay 
this  (Mr.  Carter's;  resolution  on  the  table. 

The  motion  of  Gavernor  Boutwell  to  lay  on 
tbe  table  was  carried.  [Loud  cheers.] 

Mu.  SWEETSER,  (of  Mass.)— I  move  that 
•when  this  convention  adjourn,  it  adjourn  to  meet 
at  3  o'clock  this  afternoon.  The  reason  why  I 
move  this  is,  that  it  seems  to  me  desirable  that 
we  should  somet.me  proceed  with  the  business 
of  the  convention.  If  \ve  are  going  to  take  up 
the  time  in  excursions  on  the  lake  I  do  not 
know  when  we  will  have  time  for  business.  I 
am  willing  to  change  the  time  if  any  body  can 
tell  us  that  we  cat  return  from  fhe  excursion  in 
time  for  a  meeting  of  business  this  evening. 

Mr.  BEN.  EGGLESTON  of  Ohio.— I  move  to 
amend  by  making  the  time  ten  o'clock  to  mor- 
row morning.  Now,  Mr.  President,  I  am  very 


well  satisfied  that  the  motion  just  voted  down 
in  reference  to  the  resolution,  will  make  the 
Convention  one  day  longer,  and  we  delegates 
from  Ohio,  some  of  us,  are  running  out  of 
funds.  It  will  take  a  day  or  two  longer.  It 
takes  an  hour  and  a  half  to  seat  the  delegates 
and  to  seat  outsiders  from  two  to  four  hours' 
[Laughter.]  I  want  it  understood  that  I  came 
here  to  work  and  am  not  going  on  the  lake;  nor 
i*  any  delegate  who  came  here  to  work.  But  I 
am  willing  to  amend  my  motion  by  making  it 
5  o'clock  if  desired. 

Judge  JAMES,  (of  New  York  )— Ifwehad  ap- 
pointed the  committee  on  platform  and  resolu- 
tions, then  we  could  have  with  safety  adjourn- 
ed until  to-morrow  morning;  but  we  have  vot- 
ed that  down.  We  want  to  make  a  permanent 
organization  in  order  that  the  committee  may 
be  appointed,  so  that  it  may  have  the  resolu- 
tions ready  to  present  to  us  to-morrow  morn- 
ing. 

Mr.  JUDD,  (of  Del.)—  Itseemstome.sir,  ifyou 
undertake  to  assemble  this  Convention  at  three 
o'clock,  the  business  for  which  the  Committee  on 
Credentials  and  tbe  Committee  on  Permanent 
Organization  have  been  appointed  will  not  be 
accomplished. 

A  DELEGATE  from  Minnesota— Make  it  four, 
five,  or  six. 

Mr.  JUDD — My  reason  for  making  the  sug- 
eestion  is,  I  believe  every  man  here  wants  his 
dinner,  and  they  are  scattered  over  the  entire 
city  of  Chicago,  and  if  they  are  as  hungry  as  I 
think  they  are,  before  they  can  get  their  din- 
ners and  meet  at  the  Committee  room,  the  time 
will  have  expired,  and  the  duties  will  not  be 
performed  by  the  Committees,  unless  some  gen- 
tleman has  in  his  pocket  a  programme  to  be  fol- 
lowed without  consulting  anybody  in  regard  to 
what  is  to  be  done  by  the  Committee.  I  say, 
sir,  you  must  give  them  time  if  you  expect 
them  to  act  understandingly  ;  and  there  is  no 
time  now  between',two  and  three  o'clock  to  ac- 
complish the  purposes  for  which  these  Commit- 
tees have  b<>en  appointed. 

Mr.  GOODRICH,  of  Minnesota- 1  would  ask 
the  gentleman  to  name  the  hour  of  seven  this 
evening. 

Mr.  JUDD — I  accept  the  amendment. 

MR.  KELLEY.of  Pennsylvania— This  hall  is 
engaged  for  to  night,  as  I  observe  by  a  notice 
in  the  city  papers  this  morning,  for  an  exhibi- 
tion of  the  Zouave  drill. 

MR  JUDD— I  beg  leave  to  say  that  this  hall 
is  under  the  control  of  this  Convention,  when- 
ever they  want  it,  day  or  night.  [Applause.] 

MR.  EGGLESION— I  accept  the  amendment 
to  rnett  at  seven  o'clock  this  evening. 

MR.  KELLEY,  of  Pennsylvania— There  are 
a  large  portion  of  the  members  of  this  Conven- 
tion who  cannot  get  together  and  have  a  night 
session.  There  are  too  many  of  them  to  call 
this  vast  Convention  together  for  a  night  ses- 
sion. I  hope  the  ni^ht  session  will  go  down. 

MR.  JAMES,  of  New  York — Mr.  Chairman, 
if  any  gentleman  who  voted  for  the  resolution 
that  has  passed,  against  appointing  the  Com- 
mittee on  Resolutions,  will  more  a  reconsidera- 
tion, there  will  be  no  difficulty  in  making  an 
adjournment  until  to-morrow  morning,  unless 
this  is  voted  down.  We  will  lose  less  time  by 
this  course.  I  c  mnot  make  the  motion. 

A  DELEGATE— Yes,  you  can.  You  voted 
with  the  majority. 

Mr.  JAMES — Then  I  move  a  reconsideration. 

The  CHAIR— Did  the  gentleman  from  New 
York  vote  in  favor  of  the  motion? 

Mr.  JAMES— I  did  not. 

Mr.  HOGEBOOM,  of  N.  Y.    Mr.  Chairman— 


The  CHAIR— I  understand  tbe  motion  to  be 
to  reconsider  the  vote  by  which  the  resolution 
was  just  la;d  upon  the  table. 

A.  DELEGATE  from  Michigan.  I  rise  to 
make  that  motion.  I  move  that  the  motion  to 
lay  on  the  table  be  reconsidered,  and  ihe  ap- 
pointment of  the  Committee  on  Resolutions  be 
row  tak^n  from  the  table,  or  reconsidered. 

A  DELEGATE  from  Indiana  [amid  cries  of 
"  Question  !"  Question  !"]  I  rise  to  a  point  of 
order.  I  make  ibis  point  of  order,  viz:  A 
motion  to  reconsider  the  last,  while  there  is  a 
motion  pending  for  our  adjournment  that  has 
not  been  withdrawn. 

Mr.  CARTTER— I  want  to  make  a  motion  if 
it  is  in  order  to  make  a  motion. 

The  CHAIR— It  is  the  opinion  of  the  Chair 
that  the  motion  to  reconsider  is  not  in  order,  for 
this  reason  :  That  there  was  pendingbefore  this 
Convention  at  the  time  a  resolution  to  adjourn 
until  7  o'clock  this  evening,  and  to  that  there 
was  an  amendment  that  the  hour  be  fixed  at  9 
o'clock  to-morrow  morning. 

A  VOICE — That  motion  is  now  withdrawn. 

The  CHAIR— Then  the  other  is  in  order. 

A  DELEGATE— I  renew  the  motion. 

The  CHAIR— The  question  is,  shall  the  vote 
to  lay  on  the  table  be  reconsidered. 

Mr.  PRESTON  KING  (of  New  York)— I  am 
satisfied  that  one  of  the  difficulties  iu  the  pro- 
gress of  our  business  is  this  excursion  on  the 
Lake — a  very  pleasant  one,  and  one  for  which  I 
feel,  and  I  have  no  doubt  the  entiie  Convention 
feels  indebted  to  the  hospitality  and  generosity 
of  the  citizens  of  Chicago.  But  our  object  here 
is  business,  and  not  pleasure.  I  trust,  there- 
fore, that  we  may  make  an  adjournment  which 
will  conform  to  the  convenience  of  all.  If  we 
have  old  gentlemen  here,  or  others,  who,  from 
any  cause,  do  not  desire  to  have  an  evening 
session,  let  us  adjourn  to  meet  again  at  five 
o'clock,  and  we  can,  between  that,  time  and 
dark,  perform  the  acts  necessary  to  a  complete 
organization,  and  thus  save  at  least  a  day's 
time  of  tbe  Convention.  If  we  adjourn  until 
to-morrow,  we  lose  certainly  an  entire  day. 
There  is  no  doubt  about  that.  This  Committee 
on  Platform  and  Resolutions  ought  to  have  this 
eveninr  to  sit;  and  while  I  did  not  regard  it  as 
material  whether  that  Committee  was  appointed 
before  or  after  organization,  I  am  willing  to 
concede  that  it  is  more  regular  and  more  in  ac 
cordance  with  parliamentary  usage  that  we 
should  take  tbe  course  that  was  sug- 
gested here.  Let  us  now  act  with,  a 
spirit  of  conciliation  and  unanimity  if  we  can. 
I  think  if  we  adjourn  to  5  o'clock  we  may  get 
together  and  then  oiganize  and  appoint  our 
committees  and  be  prepared  to-morrow  morn- 
ing to  go  to  work.  That  will  makeit,  of  course, 
impossible  or  inconvenient  to  go  on  this  excur- 
sion, but  it  is  better  that  we  should  attend  to 
pur  labors,  even  at  a  little  sacrifice  than  differ 
in  Convention. 

A  DELEGATE  from  Missouri— I  hope  the 
members  of  this  Convention  will  not  stu'.iify 
themselves  in  accepting  the  invitation  so  kind- 
ly tendered  to  us  aud  then  immediately  rescind- 
ing it. 

MR.  KING — I  am  going  to  move  that  the 
proposition  iu  relation  to  this  excursion  be  re- 
ferred to  our  Business  Committee,  between 
whom  and  the  Board  of  Trade  some  arrange- 
ment can  be  made.  I  move  that  the  communi- 
cation from  the  Board  of  Trade  be  referred  to 
the  Business  Committee  of  this  Convention. 

The  CHAIR— The  gentlemen  from  New  York  ' 
will  please  understand  there  is  still  pending  a  ! 


motion  to  take  from  the  table  the  resolution 
heretofore  laid  upon  the  table. 

MR.  PRESTON  KING— If  that  is  insisted 
npor,  we  must  take  the  voice  of  the  Convention 
upon  it.  My  object  in  making  ftois  motion  was 
to  see  if  we  could  not  come  to  some  understand- 
ing, or  reach  some  conclusion,  with  unanimity. 
[Cries  of  "  question,  question."] 

The  CHAIR— The  question  i?,  shall  the  reso- 
lution laid  upon  the  table,  respecting  the  plat- 
form, be  now  taken  from  the  table. 

MR.  SWEETSER,  of  Massachusetts— Does 
not  that  require  a  two-thirds  vote  tto  do  it, 
under  the  rules  of  the  House  of  Representa- 
tives? I  moved  to  adjourn  until  five  o'clock  ; 
|  somebody  else  moved  to  amend,  and  adjourn 
until  nine  or  ten  o'clock  to  morrow  morning. 
My  original  motion  has  never  been  withdrawn. 

The  CHAIR— I  so  understood  it  to  be. 

MR.  SWEETSER— The  gentleman  withdrew 
his  motion.  I  still  ask  to  have  my  motion 
put. 

The  CHAIR— The  question  ie,  shall  this  Con- 
vention when  it  adjourn?,  adjourn  to  meet  at 
five  o'clock  this  afternoon  ;  and  the  amendment 
is,  to  nine  o'clock  to  morrow  morning. 

Mr.  CLEVELAND,  of  Connecticut— I  am 
sure,  gentlemen,  that  you  are  all  disposed  to 
act  as  you  look — like  gentlemen.  I  desire  to 
say  to  you  that  we  have  a  very  polite  and  gen- 
tlemanly communication  from  the  Board  of 
Trade,  and  we  have  by  a  vote  accepted  it. 
Now  I  agree  with  my  friend  from  New  York, 
that  we  had  better  not  do  it,  but  to  get  out  of 
it  and  treat  them  fairly,  we  have  only  to  make 
a  motion  to  reconsider,  and  then  we  can  dis- 
pose of  it  in  such  a  manner  as  the  Convention 
shall  see  fit,  and  in  such  a  manner  as  is  consist- 
ent with  the  gentlemanly  character  of  those 
who  made  the  invitation.  In  passing  a  motion 
to  accept  it,  and  then  voting  to  adjourn  till  5 
o'clock,  we  seem  to  throw  contempt  upon  their 
very  civil  invitation.  If  the  gentleman  will 
withdraw  his  motion,  for  the  purpose  of  making 
a  motion  to  reconsider,  I  will  make  that  motion, 
and  then  we  can  eet  out  of  the  trouble. 

Mr.  SWEETSER— I  withdraw  the  motion 
simply  for  that  purpose. 

The  CHAIR— The  difficulty  is  here :  If  you 
withdraw  your  motion  touching  the  hour  of  ad- 
journment, then  comes  before  the  Convention, 
as  I  understand  it,  the  motion  to  take  from  the 
table  the  resolution  concerning  the  Platform. 
The  motion  before  the  Convention  is  that  we 
adjourn,  when  we  do  adjourn,  until  to-morrow 
morning  at  9  o'clock. 

Motion  put  and  lost.     [Applause.] 

The  CUAlR — Now  the  proposition  before  the 
Convention  is  that  when  this  Convention  ad- 
journs, it  adjourn  to  meet  at  5  o'clock  this  after- 
noon. 

Motion  put  and  carried.     [Applause.] 

Mr.  GIDDINGS— (Loud  cheers.)  I  rise  for 
the  purpose  of  alluding  to  the  invitation 
which  has  been  accepted  by  this  Con- 
vention, received  from  the  Board  of 
Trade  to  meet  there  at  5  o'clock  for  a  pleasure 
excursion.  I  do  this,  sir,  from  a  sincere  con- 
viction that  every  gentleman  who  has  come 
here  has  come  impressed  with  the  solemnity  ot 
the  business  before  us— knowing  that  we  are 
here  to  perform  high  and  solemn  duties  to  our 
country  and  ourselves,  and  in  justice  to  the 
cause  in  which  we  are  employed,  we  should  be 
zealously  engaged  in  the  business  before  us  ; 
and  here  I  wilTtake  leave  to  say  we  have  had  a 
precedent  recently  set  before  vs.  far  south  of 
this,  which  should  caution  us  about  spending 
our  time  here  to  the  wearying  of  the  public 


mind  in  witnessing  our  discussions.  If  we  can  j 
close  up  our  business  to-morrow  by  two  or  three  j 
o'clock,  it  will  tell  upon  the  community  with  a 
moral  force  that  is  incalculable.  [Loud  and  . 
prolonged  applause.]  Now,  Mr.  Chairman,  I 
will  labor  from  this  time  until  three  o'clock  to- 
morrow in  order  to  attain  the  object  of  a  final 
adjournment  at  that  time.  [Renewed  cheering.] 
Then  sir,  I  am  willing  to  accept  the  kind  invi- 
tation of  the  Board  of  Trade  here,  and  enjoy 
the  pleasure  of  going  upon  the  proposed  excur- 
sion. For  the  purpose  of  reconsidering  this 
vote,  and  then  referring  it  to  a  Committe  that 
they  shall  make  the  arrangements  with  the 
Board  of  Trade,  so  that  tit  our  adjournment  we 
will  meet  them  and  cordially  accept  the  invi- 
ta'ion  and  take  this  excursion.  I  now  move 
that  we  reconsider  the  vote  by  which  that  mo- 
tion was  carried,  accepting  the  pleasure  excur 
sion.  Motion  put  and  carried. 

MR.  LOWRY,  of  Penn.—  I  move  you  sir  that 
a  committee  of  one  from  each  State  be  appoint- 
ed by  the  Chair  to  confer  with  the  Board  of 
Trade, 

VOICES—  Make  it  a  committee  of  five. 

MR,  LOWRY  —  I  will  modify  my  resolution 
and  make  it  a  committee  of  five. 

A  DELEGATE  from  Mass.—  We  have  already 
a  committee  appointed  upon  the  order  of  busi- 
ness, and  I  suggest  that  this  matter  of  the  invi 
tation  of  the  Board  of  Trade,  of  Chicago,  can  be 
referred  to-it.  I  make  the  motion,  that  that 
reference  be  made. 

A  DELEGATE  from  Vermont—  I  hope  that 
the  committee  will  give  the  Board  of  Trade  notice 
for  they  are  probably  now  making  their  prepara- 
tions for  the  trip,  and  certainly  we  should  give 
them  notice. 

Motion  to  appoint  a  committee  of  five  to  con- 
fer adopted. 

The  Chair  then  appointed  the  following  com- 
mittee : 


B.  LOWRY,  of  Pennsylvania. 
AARON  GOODRICH,  of  Minnesota. 
JOSHUA  R.  GIODItNGS.  of  Ohio 
F.  P.  BLAIR,  of  Maryland. 

o.  F.  CLEVELAND,  of  Connecticut. 

The  convention  then  adjourned  until  •  o'clock 
P.  M. 


AFTERNOON  SESSION. 

The  Convention  was  called  to  order  at  S:15 
p.  M  ,  by  the  temporary  President. 

THE   INVITATION. 

Mr.  LOWRY,  of  Pennsylvania.— I  would  ask 
leave  to  make  a  report.  The  committee  have 
called  upon  our  friends,  the  Board  of  Trade, 
who  invited  us  to  the  excursion.  They  exten- 
ded to  us  an  invitation  and  we  accepted  it. 
They  left  immediately  and  prepared  themselves 
to  carry  out  the  arrangement  that  they  bad 
proposed  for  our  enjoyment.  They  have  a  per- 
fect fleet  down  there  now  in  readiness.  Before 
I  could  get  there— before  I  could  find  the  parties 
who  have  invited  us,  they  had  their  fleet  ready 
to  .carry  us,  and  large  enough  to  carry  us  all. 
They  say  that  if  we  are  so  pressed  with  busi- 
ness we  can  hold  the  Convention  on  the  decks 
oi  their  vessels  if  we  desire  it,  and  we  can,  so 
they  say,  have  their  cabins  for  rooms  to  caucus 
in.  They  are  disposed  very  much  to  press  us 
and  will  wait  one  hour :  that  will  make  it  six 
o'clock.  Now,  inasmuch  r-a  the  people  of  Chi- 
cago extend  to  us  this  invitation,  I  hope  it  will 
be  unanimously  accepted  for  6  o'clock. 

Mr.  CARTTER  of  Ohio— I  rise  to  a  question 
of  order.  There  is  one  question  already  before 
the  house. 


Mr.  GOODRICH  of  Minnesota— Say  "as  soon 
thereafter  as  possible."  We  may  perhaps  have 
to  wait  fifteen  or  twenty  minutes  thereafter.  I 
hope  that  we  shall  go  ou  and  perfect  our  organ- 
ization, and  I  believe  that  can  be  done  within 
the  time  named,  I  hope  the  Convention  will 
at  get  ready  at  once  to  take  that  excursion  and 
go  in  an  hour. 

Mr.  HAZARD  of  R.  I.— The  proposition  now- 
made,  as  I  understand  it,  differs  only  from  that 
of  the  morning  in  this  :  it  is  now  said  that  it 
will  not  interfere  with  the  progress  of  business. 
[Cries  of  "Never  mind,"  and  much  confusion.] 
but  it  does  not  meet  the  case.  I  suppose  that 
we  are  here  on  important  business.  We  are 
here,  believing  as  was  said  this  morning  [much 
confusion]  believing  that  the  government  ia 
pressed  on  both  sides,  one  half  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party  threatening  us  with  annihilation — 

So  much  confusion  was  here  made  that  the 
speaker's  words  could  not  be  heard  at  the  re- 
porter's desk. 

Loud  calls  for  the  "question.". 

The  question  to  adjourn  to  six  o'clock  being 
submitted  was  lost  amid  mucb  applause. 

The  PRESIDENT  announced  that  the  reports 
of  the  Committees  were  in  order,  and  asked  for 
the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Permanent  Or- 
ganizi'ion.  [Cries  of  "  Good."] 

Mr.  HINCKLEY  of  California— I  ask  if  it  is 
not  in  accordance  with  usage  that  the  Commit- 
tee on  Credentials  to  first  report? 

The  PRESIDENT— I  dp  not  know  that  there 
is  any  special  order  in  which  Committees  should 
report. 

Mr.  KELLY  of  Pennsylvania  —  I  move  that 
the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  be 
called,  so  that  we  may  know  who  are  members 
of  the  Convention. 

The  motion  of  Mr.  Kelly  was  carried. 

Mr.  CUMINS  o'  Massachusetts  stated  that  tbe 
Committee  on  Permanent  Organization  had 
agreed  upon  a  report,  and  that  its  Chairman 
would  be  present  very  soon  to  present  the  re- 
port to  the  Convention. 

The  PRESIDENT  called  for  the  report  of  the 
Committee  on  Credentials,  if  the  Chairman  was 
present. 

Judge  TRACY,  of  California— I  understand 
that  the  Committee  on  the  Order  of  Business 
is  ready  to  report  in  part,  and  inasmuch  as  no 
other  committee  seems  to  be  ready  to  report  1 
propose  fhat  the  Chair  call  /or  the  report  of 
that  Committee. 

The  PRESIDENT— I  think  that  if  the  Com- 
mittee on  Permanent  Organization  is  ready  to 
report,  it  would  be  best  to  receive  that. 

Judge  TRACY— Certainly,  if  they  are  in  a 
state  of  crvstalization.  [Laughter.] 

The  PRESIDENT— I  understand  fhat  they 
are  ready. 

Mr.  HORTON,  of  the  Committee  on  Perma- 
nent Organization,  made  a  report  in  part  that 
they  have  agreed  upon  Mr.  Ashman  of  Massa- 
chusetts. 

A  VOICE -Georere? 

The  PRESIDENT— Hon.  George  Ashmun 
[A.  Voice,  "Good  boy" — laughter,]  of  Massa- 
chusetts for  President  of  the  Convention.  ] Pro- 
longed cheers. 

The  report  in  reference  to  the  selection  of 
permanent  President  was  unanimously  adopted. 

A  VOICE— Nary  a  "  no."    [Laughter.] 

The  temporary  President  appointed  Hon. 
Preston  King  of  New  York,  and  Carl  Schurz 
Esq.,  a  committee  to  conduct  the  President  to 
the  Chair.  The  appearance  of  Mr.  Schun  waa 
the  signal  for  loud  cheers. 

The  President  was  conducted  to  the  Chair- 


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amid    enthusiastic  applause.    When  this  had 
subsided  he  addressed  the  Convention. 

SPEECH  OP   HON.  GEORGE   ASHMUN. 

Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  Stpvblicanr, 
Americans— My  first  duty  is  to  express  to  you 
the  deep  sense  which  I  feel  of  this  distinguished 
mark  of  your  confidence.  In  the  spirit  in  which 
it  has  been  oBVred  I  accept  it,  sensible  of 
the  difficulties  which  surround  the  position,  but 
cheered  and  sustained  by  the  faith  that  the 
same  generosity  that  has  brought  me  here 
will  carry  me  through  the  discharge  of  the  du- 
ties. I  witl  not  shrink  from  this  position,  at 
the  same  time  the  post  of  danger  as  well  as  the 
post  of  honor.  [Applause.]  Gentlemen,  we 
have  come  here  to  day  at  the  call  of  our  coun- 
try from  widely  separated  tomes,  to  fulfill  a 
great  and  important  duty.  No  ordinary  call 
has  brought  us  together.  Nothing  but  a  mo- 
mentous question  would  have  called  this  vast 
multitude  here  to-day — nothing  but  a  deep 
sense  of  the  danger  into  which  our  government 
is  fatt  running  could  have  rallied  the  people 
thus  IK  this  city  to-day,  for  the  purpose  of  res- 
cuing the  government  trom  the  deep  degrada 
tion  into  which  it  has  fallen.  [Loud  applause.] 
We  have  come  here  at  the  call  of  our  country 
for  the  purpose  of  preparing  for  the  most 
solemn  duty  that  freemen  have  to  perform. 
We  are  here  in  the  ordinary  capacity  as  del- 
egates of  the  people,  to  prepare  for  the  forma 
tion  and  carrying  on  of  a  new  administration, 
aud  with  the  help  of  the  people  we  will  do  it. 
(Applause.)  No  mere  controversy  about  mis 
erable  abstractions  has  brought  us  hereto-day; 
we  havn  not  come  here  on  any  idle  question. 
The  sacrifice  which  most  of  us  have  made  in  the 
extended  journey,  and  in  the  time  devoted  to 
it, could  only  have  been  made  upon  some  solemn 
call ;  and  the  stern  look  which  1  see,  the  solemn 
look  wh  ch  I  see  on  every  face,  and  the  earnest 
behavior  which  has  been  manifested  in  all  the 
preliminary  discussions,  shows  full  well  that 
we  all  have  a  true  aud  deep  sense  of  the  solemn 
obligation  which  is  resting  upon  us.  Gentlemen, 
it  does  not  belong  to  me  to  make  an  extended 
address;  it  is  for  me  rather  to  assist  in  the  de- 
tails of  the  business  that  belong  to  this  Con- 
vention. But  allow  me  to  say  that  I 
think  we  have  a  right  here  to  day, 
in  the  name  of  the  American  people  to  say  that 
we  impeach  the  Administration  of  our  General 
Government  of  the  highest  crimes  which  can 
be  committed  against  a  Constitutional  govern- 
ment, against  a  free  people,  and  against  numan- 
ity.  [Prolonged  chears.]  The  catalogue  of  its 
crimes  it  is  not  for  me  to  recite.  It  is  written 
upon  every  page  of  the  history  of  the  present 
Administration,  and  I  care  not  bow  manypaper 
protests  the  President  may  send  into  the  House 
of  Representatives  [laugnter  and  applause],  we 
here,  the  grand  inquest  of  the  nation,  will  find 
out  tor  him  and  his  confederates  not  merely 
punishment  terrible  and  sure,  but  a 
remedy  which  shall  be  satisfactory. 
(Prolonged  cheers.)  Gentl  men,  before  pro- 
ceeding to  the  duties  of  the  Convention,  allow 
me  to  congratulate  you  and  the  people  upoa 
thestriking  feature  which,  I  thick,  must  have 
been  noticed  by  everybody  who  has  mixed  in 
the  preliminary  discussions  of  the  people  who 
have  gathered  in  this  beautiful  city.  It  is  that 
brotherly  kindness  and  generous  emulation 
which  has  marked  every  conversation  and  eve- 
ry discussion,  showing  a  desire  for  nothing  else 
but  their  country's  good.  Earnest,  warm  and 
generous  preferences  are  expressed,  ardent 
hopes  and  fond  purposes  are  declared,  but  not 


within  the  three  days  I  have  spent  among 
you  all,  have  I  heard  one  unkind  word. 
uttered  by  one  man  towards  another.  I  hail  it 
as  an  augury  of  success,  and  if  during  the*  pro- 
ceedings of  this  convention  you  will  unite  to 
perpetuate  that  feeling  and  allow  it  to  pervade 
all  your  proceedings,  I  declare  to  you,  that  i 
think  it  is  the  surest  and  brighest  promise 
of  our  success,  whoever  may  be  the  standard 
bearer  in  the  contest  that  is  pending.  [Ap- 
plause.] In  that  spirit  gentlemen  let  us  now 
proceed  to  the  business  —  to  the  great  work, 
which  the  American  people  have  given  iu- 
t»  our  hands  to  do.  [Applapge.]  * 

THE   OFFICERS  OF  THE   CONVENTION. 

MR.  MARSH,  of  New  Jersey—  The  Commit- 
tee  on  Permanent  Organization  having  reported 
in  part,  desires  to  complete  its  report. 

The  Ooir.mittee  appointed  to  recommend  offi- 
cers for  the  permane-it  organization  of  this  Con- 
vention, have  attended  to  that  duty,  and  report 
that  the  officers  shall  consist  of  a  President, 
twenty-seven  Vice  Presidents,  and  twenty-six 
Secretaries  ;  and  the  following  gentlemen  are 
recommended  to  fill  the  offices  respectively 
named  :  * 

PRESIDENT  : 

HON.  GEORGE  ASHMUN,  of  Massachusetts 

TICK   PRESIDENTS. 

ralifvrnia...,  ...A.  A.  S  ARGENT. 

CbMMbui  ..............  C.  F.  CLEVELAND 

Delaware  ...............  JOHN  C.  CLARK. 

Iowa....  ...............  H.  I'.  SCHOLTE. 

ininoit  ................  DAVTD  DAVIS. 

Indiana....  ....  ________  JOHN  BEARD. 

*<TiturJt«....  ,...W.  D.  GALLAGHER. 

Maine          ............  SAMUEL  F.  HERSHY. 

jUarylawJ  ..............  WM.  L.  MAR   HALL. 

Hami^auettt,  ..........  ENS'GN  H.  KELLOGO. 

Pirhigan  ...............  J.  W.FFRRv, 

Minnesota.,..  ...AARON  GOO    RICH. 

Missouri  ...............  HFNhY  T.  BLOW. 

A<rw  York  ..............  WM.  OHRTIS  NOTES. 

few  Jersey  ............  G.  E.  ROGERS. 

Wew  Hampshire  ........  WM.  HA1LE, 

0\io....  ..  ............  GFO.  D.  BURGF.SS. 

Oregon  ..................  JOEt.  BURLINGAME. 

Pmnn/lvemiq  ...........  I'HADDEUS  fTEVENS. 

Rhode  Hand....  .......  ROWLAND  G.  HAZARD. 

Texas  ...............  M.  8.  (5.  OHANDLEK. 

Vermont  ................  WM.  HEBORD. 

Virginia  ................  R.  CRAWFORD. 

JftmtHWfn  ...............  HANs  CRO   KER. 

flebrailM  ...............  —  PADDOCK. 

Kantas  .................  W.  W.  ROSS. 

Ditt.  C«l  ................  GEO.  HAKRINGTOIf. 

SECRETARIES. 
California...  ...D.  J.  STAPLE". 

•onnect-ciU  ..............  H.  H.  STA  KKWEATHER. 

Delaware  ...............  B.  J.HOPK>NS. 

lt"a  ...................  WILLIAM  M.  STONE. 

Illinois  .................  O.  L.  DAVIS. 

Indiana  .............  .....DANIEL  D.  PRATT. 

Ken'ueku  ...............  -TEPH-N  J.  HOWES. 

Uiine  ..................  C.  A.  WING. 

M<iryla»d  ..............  WILLIAM  E.  COALF. 

SfamachveeUt  ...........  «:.  0.  ROGERS. 

nVAiaan  ...............  W.  8.  s-TOrGlTON. 

Minnesota  ...............  D.  A.  SECOMBE. 

Jfiwourt  ................  J.  K.  KIDD. 

Kete  York  ...............  GEO.  W.  CURTIS. 

f-w  Jew./  .............  EDWARD  B-ETTLE. 

Jfeu,  Hampshire  .....  ....NATHAN  HUBbARU. 

Ihia  ....................  H.  J.  BEEBE. 

Origan  ..................  ELI  THAYSR. 

TVjiTHi/frania.....  ......  .1.  B.   HELL. 

RhodeMand  ...........  R.  R.  HAZARD. 

•lexas  ..................  DONALD  HSNDElJSOir. 

Vermont...   ,  ...........  JOHN  W.  ST.EW/»JfT. 

Virf/i-uia  ................  A.  W.  CAMPBHLM 

Wixamfin  .......         .  .  .L.  F.  FRISBI  E. 

Kansas  .................  JOHN  A.  MAt,TKf. 

febraika  ...............  fl.  P. 


On  motion,  the  report  was  received  and 
adopted  rum.  con. 

Mr.  TRACY  of  California—  I  move  that  a 
committee  of  one  from  each  State  a»-d  Territo- 
ry be  appointed,  to  be  nominated  by  the  dele- 
gates of  the  respective  States,  OB  Resolutions 
and  Platform. 


10 


Mr.  CARTTER— And  I  mave  that  all  the  res-  ; 
olntions  submitted  to  this  Convention  be  refer- 
red to  that  committee  without  debate. 

Mr.  TRACY — I  accept  the  amendment. 

PRESENTATION  OP  A   GAVEL. 

Mr.  JUDD— Task  the  gentlemen  to  suspend 
for  one  moment,  while  I  make  a  presentation  to  j 
the  President  of  this  Convention.  I  am  directed,  ] 
Mr   President,  on  behalf  of  one  of  the  working 
mechanic  Republicans    of  Chicago,  to  present 
to  you,  sir,  this  emblem  of  your  authority.  [Ex- 
hibiting a  beautifully  wrought,  oak   gave!,  fia-  ! 
isbed  and  ornamented  with  ivory^  and  silver  ] 
"It  is  not,  sir,  the  wood  and  the  ivory  and  the 
silver — 

AT.  HINCKLEY  of  California— [Interrupt- 
ing.] I  rise  to  a  point  of  order.  ["  Sit  down," 
"  Go  on  with  the  pre=entation,"  and  grfeat  con 
fusion.]  The  Committee  on  Order  of  Business 
has  not  yet  been  reported  from ;  when  that 
committee  reports  perhaps  the  Convention  will 
find  the  adoption  or  rejection  of  that  report  will  j 
settle  the  controversy  in  reference  to  the  ap- 
pointment of  the  Committee  on  Platforms  and 
Resolutions. 

'  The  CHAIR— The  Chair  holds  that  that  is 
not  a  point  of  order.  [Applause  ]  The  ques- 
tion is  upon  the  resolution  of  the  gentleman 
from  California  (Mr.  Tracy.) 

Mr.  JUDD— I  would  not,  Sir,  have  attempted 
to  have  made  this  presentation  if  I  had  not  sup- 
posed that  Ibid  the  unanimous  consent  at  this 
time  of  the  Convention.  [Applause  and  cries 
of  "Go  on,"  "go  on."]  I  was  saying  to  you, 
Sir,  that  it  was  not  the  wood  or  the  ivory  or 
the  silver,  of  which  that  little  instrument  is 
composed,  that  renders  it  va  uable.  It  has, 
like  the  Republican  party,  a  history.  It  is  a 
piece  of  oak  taken  trom  Commopore  Perry's 
flag  ship — the  Lawrence.  [Applause.]  It  is 
not  from  its  size  that  its  power  is  to  be  es- 
timated. It  is,  like  the  Republican  rule,  strong 
but  not  noisy.  [Great  enthusiasm.]  It 
is  not,  that  the  Republicans  require  a  noisy 
and  yiolent  government,  or  they  require 
riotously  to  put  down  the  sham  Democracy  ; 
but  they  require,  and  intend  to  apply  to  them 
and  to  all  those  persons  who  seek  disunion  and 
keep  up  a  cry  about  destroying  our  Govern- 
ment, the  little  force  necessary  to  control  and 
restrain  them,  like  the  little  force  which  will  be 
necessary  for  you,  Mr.  President,  to  use  in  pre- 
fiding  over  the  deliberations  of  this  Conven- 
tion [Great  cheers.] 

There  is  a  motto,  too,  adopted  by  that  me- 
chanic, which  should  be  a  motto  for  every  Re 
publican  in  this  Convention — the  motto  borne 
upon  thl  flag  of  the  gallant  Perry,  "Don't 
pive  up  the  ship."  [Great  applause.]  Mr.  Presi- 
dent, in  presenting  this  to  you,  in  addition  to 
the  motto  furnished  by  the  mechanic  who  man- 
ufactured this,  as  an  evidence  of  his  warmth 
and  zeal  in  the  Republ can  cause,  I  would  re- 
commend to  this  Convention  to  believe  that 
the  person  who  will  be  nominated  here,  can, 
when  the  election  is  over  in  November,  send  a 
despatch  to  Washington  in  the  language  of  the 
gallant  Perry,  "  We  have  met  the  enemy,  and 
they  are  ours."  [Terrific  cheering.  Voices, 
"  Name,  name."]  Mr.  President,  in  the  begin- 
ning I  should  have  named,  Mr.  C.  G.  THOMAS, 
of  Chicago.  [Hearty  applause.] 

The  PRESIDENT— In  behalf  of  the  Con- 
vention I  accept  from  tbo  hands  of  the  gentle 
man  trom  Illinois  the  present  made  by  the 
Chicago  mechanic;  and  I  have  only  to  say  to- 
day that  all  the  auguries  are  that  we  shall  meet 
the  enemy  and  they  shall  be  ours.  [Cheere.] 


Mr.  DEVJBITZ,  of  Ky.,  announced  that 
the  Committe  on  Rules  and  Order  of  Business 
had  matured  a  partial  report,  defining  the  man- 
ner in  which  votes  should  be  taken  in  the  Con- 
vention. He  moved  that  that  report  be  now 
called  up. 

The  PRESIDENT  announced  that  the  ques- 
tion on  the  appointment  of  a  Committee  on  Reso- 
lutions and  Platform  was  pending. 

Mr.  DEUBItZ  moved  that  the  question  on 
the  appointment  of  a  Committee  on  Pla'form 
and  Resolutions  be  postponed  until  the  report 
of  the  Committee  on  Rules  and  Order  of  Busi- 
ness had  been  received. 

The  motion  of  Mr.  Dembitz  was  lost. 

The  PRESIDENT—  The  question  is  now  on 
the  appointment  of  a  Committee  on  Resolutions 
and  Platform  to  whom  to  refer  without  debate 
all  resolutions  or  propositions. 

Gov.  REEDER—  Mr.  President— 

VOICES—"  Name." 

The  PRESIDENT—  Gov.  Reeder  of  Pennsyl- 
vania. [Prolonged  cheers.] 

Gov.  KEEDER—  I  understand  the  resolution 
before  the  Convention  to  be  that  a  Committee 
of  cue  from  each  State  be  appointed  for  the  pur- 
pose of  drafting  a  Platform  and  Resolutions. 
Am  I  right? 

The  PRESIDENT—  You  are,  substantially. 

Gov.  REEDER—  Then  I  move  to  amend  so 
that  it  may  include  the  Territories. 

Judge  TRACY—  That  is  the  language  of  the 
motion. 

The  motion  to  appoint  a  Committee  on  Plat- 
form and  Resolutions  was  then  carried. 

The  PRESIDENT  suggested  to  the  Convention 
the  propriety  of  having  a  roll  of  the  Convention 
arranged  un'der  the  hiads  of  thedifferent  States 
made  out  by  the  Secretaries  and  to  be  printed 
for  the  use  of  the  Convention.  He  then  pro- 
posed to  call  the  States  far  the  appointment  of 
a  Committee  on  Resolutions  and  Platform. 

MR.  JAMES,  of  New  York—  Before  that  is 
put,  I  would  suggest  that  the  Committee  on 
Credentials  report.  We  refused  to  adopt  this 
very  resolution  before  dinner. 

The  CHAIR—  The  Chair  is  about  to  call  the 
roll  of  the  States,  for  the  purpose  01  receiving 
the  names  of  gentlemen  to  constitute  a  Commit- 
tee on  Resolutions. 

THB   COMMITTEE   ON   RESOLUTIONS, 

The  roll  was  then  called  and  the  Committee 
constituted  as  follows  : 
jf,ine  ...................  GEORGE  F.  TALBOTT. 

W  Hampshire  ...........  AMOTU''K. 

Vermont  .  .  .E  8ENEZER  M.  BKIG^S. 

VwuackSi^tt*  .............  GEORWES.  bOUPWELL. 

Rhmle  Island  ............  BENJAMIX  T.  EAME3. 


.. 

AiPJ>«ey...  ............  THOS.  H.  DUDLEY. 

Prow/I  canto  ............  «  I  LL  I  A  M  J  E.-SUP. 

naauSr*  ...............  N.  B.SMI.HKRS. 

Mirvhut'l  .............  F.  r.  BL\IR. 

Virginia.  ..  ..............  ALFRED  OALDWELL. 

0Ai2    ,  .......    JOSEPH   H   BARKETT. 

Kentucky  ...  .GEORGE  T».  BLAKE  t. 

/wtonoT        ,."  .......  WM.T.OTTO. 


/TOW...  .....  J.  A.KASSON. 

Hiwouri.  .................  OHAS.  L.  BfENAYS. 

Or*jm  .."'.'.'.''"'.      "HORACE  GREELEY. 
T*xa»..:.  '.  ...............  H.  A   S"AW. 

D.  Co'umina  .............  '+.  A.  HILL. 

,.e6ru.«fea  ................  A.S'DNEli'  GARDNER. 

Kantcu  ................  JOHN  P.  HA  I'TERSOBIEDT. 

OTHER   REPORTS. 

MR  CORWINE,  of  Ohio—  The  Committee  on 
Business  have  a  report  prepared  In  part,  but 
they  are  detained  somewhat  by  the  want  of  the 
report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials. 


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MR.  HOPKINS,  of  Massachusetts— In  re- 
sponse to  the  suggestion  from  the  Chair,  I  move 
you  that  the  Secretaries  of  this  Convention  be  di- 
rected to  prepare  a  lull  list  of  the  delegates  to 
this  Convention. 

MR.  ,  of  Missouri — I  would  move  as 

an  amendment,  that  it  contain  their  post  office 
addresses. 

The  CHAIR— That,  I  suppose,  will  be  attend- 
ed to.  Ic  will  all  be  done  under  the  direction  of 
the  Secretaries. 

Motion  to  print  adopted. 

ANOTHER  INVITATION. 

The  CHAIR.    I  have  received  a  communica 
tion  from  the  Zouave  Guard  directed  to  this 
Convention,  which  Capt.  Rogers  of  Mass,  will 
read. 
CHARLES  0.  ROGERS  read  as  follows  : 

ARMORY  OF  THE  ZOUAVE  CADET  GUARD,) 
May  16, 18«0.    $ 

To  the  Honorable  members  of  the  National  Re- 
publican Convention — Gentlemen  :  In  comoli- 
ftuce  with  the  wishes  of  the  citizens,  we  are, 
through  the  courtesy  of  the  Committee,  permit- 
ted to  occupy  the  "  Wigwam"  this  evening  lor 
an  exhibition  drill,  to  which  we  beg  t  j  return 
an  invitation  to  the  members  of  your  honorable 
body.  We  shall  feel  highly  honored  by  the 
presence  of  all  who  can  find  leisure  to  attend. 
Tickets  of  admission  will  be  found  at  the  head- 
quarters of  the  different  delegations. 

I  have  the  honor  to  be  your  obed't  serv't, 
E.  E  ELLSWORTH, 
Commander  U.  S.  Zouave  Cadets. 

On  motion  the  invitation  to  be  present,  was 
accepted  with  thanks. 

MORE   PRINTING. 

Mr.  KAUFMANN  of  Pennsylvania.  I  would 
suggest  to  the  Committee  on  Platform  before 
they  present  to  the  Convention  their  report, 
that  they  have  a  large  number  of  copies  printed 
and  distributed  to  all  members  so  that  they  can 
see  it.  It  will  be  impossible  to  have  it  read 
here  so  that  we  can  understand  it  clearly,  and 
members  will  not  know  if  they  are  ia  favor  of 
it  or  against  it.  I  will  make  a  motion  to  that 
efl'ect. 

Motion  to  print  carried. 

ABOUT  ADJOURNMENT. 

Mr.  VORHIES  of  Indiana.  I  move  that 
when  this  Convention  adjojrns,  it  do  adjourn 
until  to  morrow  morning  at  nine  o'clock. 

MANY  VOICES.    "Make  it  ten." 

The  CHAIR.  It  is  moved  to  amend  by  sub- 
stituting ''ten." 

Mr.  TRACY  of  California,— Nine  o'clock  is 
too  early.  I  have  come  a  long  way,  meny 
thousand  miles,  to  attend  this  convention  and 
am  tired  and  I  can't  get  up  so  early. 

MR.  KELLEY  of  Pennsylvania.— There  are 
several  commiitees  who  have  business  to  attend 
to ;  one  of  which  I  know  meets  at  eight  and 
another  at  half  past  eight,  and  it  will  be  im- 
possible for  them  to  get  through  their  business 
by  nine  o'clock.  In  endeavoring  to  save  an 
hour,  I  think  the  convention  will  waste  much 
more  time.  I  think  that  it  would  be  more  judi- 
cious to  meet  at  ten  o'clock,  when  the  com- 
mittees can  come  in  with  their  reports. 

The  motion  to  adjourn  to  ten  o'clock  pre- 
vailed. 

Mr.  ROLLINS,  of  New  Hampshire  offered 
the  following  resolution : 

fiesolved,  That  the  delegations  from  each 
State  and  Territory  represented  in  this  Conven- 
tion be  requested  to  designate  and  report  the 
name  of  one  individual  to  serve  as  a  member 


of  the  National  Republican  Comtuitte  for  the 
ensuiog  four  years. 

Mr.  NOURSE,  of  Iowa,  moved  to  amend  the 
resolution  so  tbat  the  Delegations  should  be 
left  to  select  members  of  the  National  Commit- 
tee who  were  not  members  of  the  Convention. 

The  am-  ndment  was  accepted  and  the  resolu- 
tion adopted. 

The  Convention  then,  on  motion,  adjourned 
to  Thu  sday  morning  at  10  o'clock. 


SECOND    DAY. 

The  Convention  assembled  in  the  Repub- 
lican Wigwam  at  ten  o'clock  pursuant  to  ad- 
journment, and  was  called  to  order  by  the  Presi- 
dent. 

The  CHAIR,  [Amid  great  confusion.]  It  ia 
quite  apparent  that  the  delegates  are  incom- 
moded by  the  gentlemen  on  the  platform,  who 
are  not  members  of  this  Convention ;  they  are 
respectfully  invited  not  to  occupy  seats  devoted 
to  the  members  of  the  Convention.  (Applause  ) 
I  will  suggest  that  each  delegation  through  its 
chairman,  purs'e  itself. 

Mr.  CARTTER  of  Ohio.  Iwillsetthe  exam- 
ple. Those  gentlemen  who  do  not  belong  to 
the  Ohio  delegation,  will  be  kind  enough  to  re- 
tire. (Applause.) 

PRAYER 

Was  then  offered  up  by  Rev.  W.  W.  Patten, 
of  the  Second  Congregational  Church,  Chicago, 
as  follows : 

Ltt  us  unite  in  prayer.  Great  God,  Thou  art  the  blessed 
and  the  only  potentate,  King  of  Kings  and  Lord  of  Lords 
Thou  only  hast  immortality.  Thou  dweilest  in  light  that 
no  man  can  approach  unto  Thee,  whom  no  man  bath  seen 
nor  mortal  vision  can  see.  We  are  Thy  weak  and 
Tfiine  erring  creatures,  and  we  draw  nigh  to  Thee  in  all  our 
dependence,  that  we  may  avail  ourselves  of  thine  al 
mighty  strength  and  boundless  wisJom.  We  thank  Th^e 
that  Thou  hast  given  us  the  great  boon  of  existence ;  that 
'1  hou  hast  sent  us  into  this  world  to  work  out  our  dettity 
and  to  do  Thy  will ;  privileging  us  with  the  opportun'ty  of 
being  workers  with  Thee  In  Thy  benevolent  and  wise  plan. 
We  thank  Thee  that  we  have  had  oar  birth  and  residence  in 
this  land  ;  and  that  we  have  come  into  the  world  to  act  rur 
part  In  these  latter  ("ays  of  Its  h'  story.  We  pray  Thee  to 
qualify  us  to  act  that  part  aright,  as  men  should  act  who 
live  1m  this  nlne'eenth  century.  And  we  pray  Thee,  Ok 
G  ;d,  that  Thy  blessing  nny  rest  upon  our  country.  We 
thatk  Thee  that  our  fathers  came  over  here  and  laid  the 
ft,undation3  of  our  country  In  prayer  and  lii  fa  th,  desiring 
here  to  serve  God  and  their  fellow  men.  And  we  pray 
Thee,  that  that  same  spirit  may  dwell  In  their  children ;  and 
may  lead  them  to  bring  forth  the  fruits  of  righteousness 
Help  this  great  people  to  lemember  that  it  is  righteousness 
that  exalt'thana'.ion,  while  slnisashame  unto  any  peo- 
ple. We  thatk  Tliee  that  Thou  hast  permit  ed  us  to  wit- 
ness this  great  convocation  of  the  friends  of  freedom  and 
humanity.  We  pray  for  Thy  blessing  to  rest  upon  all  in 
this  Convention  who  have  come  hither  to  repre  e;it  the 
Mends  of  freedom  In  this  nation.  We  beseech  of  Thee  that 
Thou  wilt  give  them  the  wisdom  which  is  from  above 
which  begins  in  the  fear  of  God.  Grant  that  they  may  be 
s^ved  from  that  fear  of  man  which  Thy  word  dec'area 
br'ngeth  a  snare  ;  and  we  pray  Thee  that  they  may  be  en- 
abled to  act  In  a  manner  worthy  of  the  responsibility  com- 
mitted to  them.  Grant  that  In  their  deliberations  they  may 
be  aided  by  the  spirit,  and  may  be  brought  to  such  conclu- 
sions as  shall  be  for  the  furtherance  of  the  caus^  of  liberty 
and  of  humani'y  in  this  great  nation,  so  that  they  sha  1  not 
only  receive  the  commendation  of  their  fellow  men,  but 
shall  be  prepared  to  meet  God,  and  that  slave,  whose  friend 
God  is,  at  the  great  day  of  account.  A U  this  we  ask  in  the 
name  of  Jesus  Christ.  Amen. 


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INVITATIONS. 

The  PRESIDENT— The  Chair  begs  leave  to 
lay  before  the  Convention  the  following  letter: 

CHICAGO,  Mav  17.  i860. 

Hon.  GEORGE  Asnitcw,  President  of  the  Republican  Con- 
vention, Ch  cago : 

DKAR  SIB— The  members  of  the  Convention 
are  invited  to  an  excursion  over  the  C.  &  R  I. 
Railroad,  to  the  city  of  Rock  Island,  crossing 
the  Mississippi  river  bridge  to  the  city  ot  Daven- 
port, Iowa,  any  day  during  their  stay  in  Cbica- 
HO  which  the  Convention  may  designate.  The 
hour  of  leaving  Chicago  and  returning,  subject 
to  the  wishes  of  the  Convention. 

I  am  respectfully  yours, 

HENRY  FARNUM,  President. 

The  PRESIDENT— It  will  be  laid  on  the  ta- 
ble for  the  present.  The  Chair  has  another 
communication : 

To  the  Honorable  President  of  the  National  Republican 
Convention : 

SIR — Can  you  not  arrange  to  send  out  some 
effective  speakers,  to  entertain  twenty  thousand 
Republicans  and  their  wives,  outside  the  build- 
ing ?  [Great  applause,  and  cries  for  "  Corwin" 
and  others.] 

THE  RULES. 

The  PRESIDENT— The  tirst  business  in  or- 
der will  be  to  hear  the  report  of  the  Committee 
on  the  Order  of  Business.  Is  that  Committee 
ready  to  report  ? 

fir.  COR  WINE,  of  Ohio—Mr.  President,  I 
am  instructed  by  the  Committee  on  Order  of 
Business  and  Rules  to  make  the  following  re- 
port : 

RULE  1.  Upon  all  subjects  before  the  Con- 
vention, the  States  and  Territories  shall  be 
called  in  the  folio  wing  order: 

Maine,  New  Hampshire,  Vermont,  Massa- 
chusetts), Rhode  Island,  Connecticut,  New 
York,  New  Jersey,  Pennsylvania,  Maryland, 
Delaware,  Virginia,  Kentucky,  Ohio,  Indiana, 
Missouri,  Texas,  Wisconsin,  Iowa,  California, 
Minnesota,  Oregon,  Kansas,  Nebraska,  Dist. 
Columbia. 

RULE  2.  Four  votes  shall  be  cast  by  the 
delegates  at  large  of  each  State,  and  each  Con- 
gressional District  shall  be  entitled  to  two 
votes.  The  votes  of  each  delegation  shall  be 
reported  by  its  chairman. 

ROLE  3.  The  report  of  the  Committee  on 
Platform  and  Resolutions  shall  be  acted  upon 
before  the  Convention  proceeds  to  ballot  for 
candidates  for  President  and  Vice  President. 

RULE  4.  304:  votes,  being  a  majority  of  the 
whole  number  of  votes  when  all  the  States  of 
the  Union  are  represented  in  this  Convention, 
according  to  the  rates  of  representation  pre- 
sented in  Rule  2,  shall  be  required  to  nominate 
the  candidates  of  this  Convention  for  the 
offices  of  President  and  Vice  President.  [Ap- 
plause and  cries  of  "  No  !  No ! "] 

ituLE  5.  The  rules  of  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives shall  continue  to  be  the  rules  of  this 
Convention  in  so  far  as  they  are  applicable  and 
not  inconsistent  with  the  foregoing  rules. 

All  of  which  is  respectfully  submitted. 

A  MINORITY  REPORT. 

MR.  JAME3,  of  New  York. — Before  we  pro- 
ceed to  act  upon  those  rules,  I  wish  to  say  that 
when  this  committee  iriet  there  were  but  17  out 
of  25  members  present.  That  the  4th  rule  which 
has  been  adopted  was  only  adopted  by  one  ma- 
jority, and  as  a  member  of  that  committee  I  pro- 
pose to  offer  a  substitute,  which  I  will  read  as 
follows: 

The  PRESIDENT— Will  the  gentleman  waive 
it  until  the  4th  rule  comes  before  the  meeting  ? 


MR.  JAME3— I  suppose  the  amentment  should 
be  submitted  before  we  enter  upon  the  duty  of 
considering  the  report. 

The  PRESIDENT— It  will  be  much  more  con- 
venient for  the  gentleman  to  present  his  amend- 
ment when  it  comes  up. 

MR.  JAMES -It  is  a  minority  report. 

The  PRESIDENT— It  is  in  order  then. 

MR.  JAMES — The  minority  of  the  Committee 
on  Business  and  Rules,  propose  the  following 
amendment  to  the  4th  rule,  as  a  minority  re- 
port: 

4th.  That  a  majority  of  the  whole  number  of 
votes  represented  in  this  conven'ion,  according 
to  the  votes  prescribed  by  the  second  rule,  shall 
be  required  to  nominate  a  candidate  for  presi- 
dent and  vice  president.  [Applause,  and  cries 
of  no!  no!  1] 

The  PRESIDENT— The  first  question  is  upon 
the  first  rule. 

Mr.  REEDER  of  Pennsylvania— I  desire  to 
ask  this  House  a  question. 

The  PRESIDENT— Mr.  Cartter  of  Ohio  has 
the  floor. 

Mr.  REEDER— I  beg  the  gentleman's  par- 
don; I  had  not  seen  him. 

Mr.  CARTTER  of  Ohio— We  are  approaching 
a  labor  that  is  going  to  involve  our  constituen- 
cies in  this  Convention,  and  there  is  no  report 
from  the  Committee  on  Credentials.  [Voices — 
"  We  can't  hear  you."]  Before  entering  upon 
the  consideration  of  this  icport,  which  I  per- 
ceive is  to  be  litigated,  I  propose  to  go  into  the 
battle  with  the  army  organized.  [VOICES— 
"  That's  correct,"  "  Good,"  and  so  on.]  There- 
fore I  ask  the  postponement  of  the  considera- 
tion of  the  report  of  the  Committee,  until  we 
have  a  report  from  the  Committee  on  Creden- 
tials. 

Mr.  REEDER  -That  is  precisely  the  sugges- 
tion I  was  going  to  make. 

Mr.  CARTTER— I  knew  you  were  thinking 
just  about  right.  [Laughter.] 

Motion  to  postpone  adopted  unanimously. 

REPORT   ON   CREDENTIALS. 

Mr.  BENTON  of  New  Hampshire— On  behalf 
of  the  Committee  on  Credential?,  I  am  instructed 
to  make  the  following  report : 

The  Committee  on  Credentials  report  here- 
with the  names  and  numbers  of  delegates  from 
the  several  States  as  being  elected,  and  deem  it 
proper  to  say  that  the  States  of  Pennsylvania 
and  New  Jersey  have  appointed  four  delegates 
from  each  Congressional  district  and.eight  Sen- 
atorial delegates,  instead  of  appointing  dele- 
gates and  alternates;  and  Iowa  has  appointed 
eight  delegates  from  each  Congressional  dis- 
tricts and  sixteen  Senatorial  delegates.  [Laugh- 
ter.] The  Committee  also  present  the  names 
of  the  delegates  present  and  duly  elected  from 
the  District  of  Columbia  and  the  Territories  of 
Kansas  and  Nebraska,  leaving  it  for  the  Con- 
vention to  decide  whether  they  shall  be  per- 
mitted to  vote  in  this  Convention. 

All  of  which  is  respectfully  presented  in  be 
half  of  the  committee 

The  States  and  Territories  are  specified,  and 
I  can  read  them  if  the  Convention  desire  it,  al- 
though the  Chairman  did  not  deem  it  necessary, 
as  they  are  in  the  specification  accompanying 
the  report. 

Mr.  REEDER— I  desire  to  know  if  this  Com- 
mittee has  reported  what  States  are  represented 
and  entitled  to  a  vote  in  this  Convention.  Have 
they  so  reported  ? 

Mr.  BENTON— They  have  so  reported. 

Mr.  DAVIS,  of  Massachusetts — I  desire  to 
have  that  portion  of  the  report  read  stating 
which  States  are  represented  and  entitled  to  & 


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vote  in  this  Convention,  with  the  number  of 
\otes  to  each. 

Mr.  BENTOK — In  accordance  with  the  sugges 
tion,  I  will  read  : 

THE  VOTES  OP  THE  STATES. 

California 8  New  Jersey 28 

Connecticut 12  New  HicnpsMre 10 

Delaware 6  Ok, 4- 

Iowa SI  Oregon       8 

1  "ilooU 2ft  P> nvsylvania 54 

Indiana it  Bhodeisland 8 

Km'ncjy 24  Texas 8 

Maiie 16  Vermont In 

Maiyland 10  Virg<nh , ,"0 

Massachusetts 2o  Wlo'nsin .10 

Mlcui«an 12  Kansas 6 

Minnesota 8  i^phia  ka 6 

Ml-souri 18  Dist.  Columbia 4 

N-,w  York 70 

Mr.  DAVIS,  of  Mass.— I  move  that  so  much 
of  the  report  as  relates  to  the  delegation  from 
Texas  be  referred  back  to  the  committee. 

Mr.  WILMOT,  of  Penn.— I  move  to  amend 
the  motion  so  as  to  include  the  States  of  Mary- 
land, Kentucky  and  Virginia.    I  had  foreseen 
belore  I  came  to  this  Convention,  that  the  ques 
tion  would  very  properly  arise  as  to   the  pro- 
priety of  allowing  tbese  States  to  have  a  full 
vote  in  this  Convention.    We  are  a  Convention 
of  delegates  representing  a  party,  having  con- 
stituencies at  home.    This  is  pot  a  mass  con- 
vention, in  which  a  mere  numerical  maj  >rity  of 
all  who  choose  to  attend  control  the  result,  but 
this  is  a  Convention  of  delegates  representing 
a  constituency,  and  havingconstitaents  at  home 
to  represent.  [Great  applause.]  Now,  sir,  can  It 
be  possible  that  those  gentlemen  who  come 
her ;  from  States  in  which  there  is  no  organized 
party,  or  from  States  in  which  they   cannot 
maintain  an  organized  party — is  it  possible  that 
they  are  to  come  here  and  by  their  votes  control 
the  action  ot  the  Convention?  I  can  see  nothing 
better  calculated  to  demoralize  a  pirty,  and  to 
break  it  up,  than  just  such  a  proceeding.   Why, 
sir,  this  nomination  is  to  be  the  nomination  of 
the  Republican  party  in    the  Union,  not  the 
nomination  of  respectable  gentlemen  who  n»ay 
belong    to    the    Republican    party    in    Vir- 
ginia,   Maryland    or    Kentucky.      What    are 
the  facts  in  Maryland?     In  Maryland,  thirty 
gentlemen  assembled  in  Baltimore  for  the  pur- 
Did  they  assemble  as  the  representatives  of  a 
party  ?    Not  at  all.    They  have  never  had  a  Re- 
publican party  in  Maryland,  and,  in  my  judg- 
ment, there  will  be  no  such  party  there  until  the 
people  of  the  iree  States  shalt  [place  this  gov- 
ernment in  different  hands,  and  relieve  them 
from  the  tyranny  which  now  weighs  them  down. 
There  are  respectable  genilemen  in  Maryland, 
many  of  them,  who  sympathize  with  us  and  our 
cause ;  and  so  there  are  in  every  other  South- 
ern State ;  but  they  are  not  formed  nor  forming 
into  a  pariv  organisation.    These  gentlemen  are 
not  here  as  the  representatives  of  any  organized 
party  at  all.     If  this  thing  is  to  be  done,  the  re- 
sult of  the  deliberations  of  this  Convention  re- 
specting its  nominee   maybe  another  thing;  it 
may  be  other  than  such  a  result  as  would  be 
produced  by  the  voices  of  those  only  who  are 
properly  represented  upon  this  door.    Admit 
this     precedent,     sir,     and    hereafter    some 
candidate,    or     rather    the    friends     of     the 
candidate  may,  in  their  anxiety  to  procure  a 
result  favorable  to    their  wishes,  at  the  next 
convention  we  shall  have,  sir,  carry  this  thing 
still  further  ;  and  there  will  be  delegates,  not 
representing  any  party — but  there  will  be  gen- 
tlemen, excellent  men,  no  doubt,  coming  in  here 
from  every  State  of  the  Union,  brought  here  by 
influences  from  the  North,  but  not  sent  here  by 
a  party  at  home.    That  will  be  the  result.  [Ap- 


plause.] Sir,  they  may  possibly  come  here  in 
this  manner,  in  a  situation  of  this  kind.  I  cast 
no  imputation  upon  the  gentlemen  who  come 
here  to  this  Convention.  I  have  fu'l  confidence 
in  their  integrity  and  in  the  earnestness  and 
zeal  with  which  they  are  enlisted  in  the  cause; 
but,  sir,  in  another  Convention  that  may  as- 
semble here,  gentlemen  may  come  from  South 
Carolina,  from  Arkansas,  and  from  Mississippi, 
for  the  express  purpose  of  controlling,  de- 
moralizing and  breaking  up  the  Republican 
party.  [Loud  cheering.]  Now,  sir,  if  this  is 
not  stopped,  there  is  no  help  for  us.  The  true 
policy  of  the  Republican  party  is  to  allow  all 
its  members  a  voice,  but  in  proportion  to 
their  numbers.  The  Committee  have 
reported  here  that  304  votes  shall  be  necessary 
to  a  choice — a  majority  of  the  votes  cf  all  the 
States,  when  a  large  portion  of  those  States 
are  not  represented  here.  Why  have  they 
done  that?  Why  have  they  broken  down  the 
plain  old  Republican  rule,  that  the  majority — 
the  real  majority— snail  control?  Because 
they  know  it  is  necessary  for  the  accomplish- 
ment of  some  object.  That  rule,  if  adopted, 
would  establish  one  precedent  in  the  admis- 
sion of  men  here  to  vote  who  are  not  represent- 
atives of  a  party  ;  and  then  they  adopt  another 
mischievous  rulejjfor  the  purpose  of  rectifying 
the  first.  What  we  want  is,  that  the  reoresenta- 
tives  of  the  Republican  party  here  should  vote 
for  a  candidate  for  President,  and  that  a  majori- 
ty should  control.  (Tremendous  cheeriwg.) 
That  is  what  we  desire.  This  rule  that  is  pro- 
posed, would  introduce  upon  us  30  or  40 
votes  that  do  not  represent  any  party  whatever. 
They  are  gentlemen  of  character,  gentlemen  of 
worth,  gentlemen  who  sympathize  in  this  move- 
ment heartily :  but  they  represent  no  organ-zed 
party — they  have  no  constituency  at  home. — 
You  admit  them  here,  and  then  to  avoid  the 
consequences  of  your  first  wrongful  act,  you 
require  304  votes  for  the  nomination  of  a  candi- 
date. I  therefore  move  that  this  question  re- 
specting Texas,  embraced  in  the  first  motion, 
embrace  also,  Maryland,  Virginia,  Kentucsy, 
the  Territories  of  Nebraska  and  Kansas,  and 
the  District  of  Columbia,  and  all  be  referred 
back  to  this  Committee. 

Mr.  EWING,  of  Pa.— I  deprecate  the  senti- 
ment of  my  friend  from  Peunsylvania  [voice, 
'•  That's  the  talk."    Applause.]    We  all  come 
here  as  Republicans,  and  those  men  who  came 
here  from  the  States  named  deserve  ten  tirnea 
more  credit  than  tho^e  who  come  here  from  the 
free  States.    Why,  sir,  disfranchise  our  friends 
from  Virginia,  a  border  State — a  free  State  so 
j  far  as  concerns  Western  Virginia?     Sir,  shall 
they  be  disfranchised  in  this  Convention  of  Re- 
publicans [voices,  "No,  no!"]   by  Pennsylva- 
nia. New\ork,  or  New  England,  because  they 
have  the  courage  to  stand  up  in  a  slave  State 
for  Republicanism  and  for  free  thought  ?     [Ap- 
plause ]     While,  sir,  we  may  not  oe  willing  to 
give  those  States  the  full  power  of  the  wuole 
delegation  of  the  whole  State,  yet  in  the  name 
of  God  shall  they  not  represent  their  immedi- 
ate districts  ?    It  cannot  be  that  a  convention  of 
I  Republicans  assembled  here  from  these  wbole 
United  States  will  ever  adopt  such  an  outrage 
as       to       disfranchise      our      friends       th.it, 
;  come  from  the  Southern  States.    Why  sir,  I 
•  was  mortified  at  such  a  sentiment  coming  from 
my  distinguished    friend    from  Pennsylvania. 
I  that  these  gentlemen  who  have  come  here  in  de- 
',  fiance  of  the  sentiment  which  prevails  in  their 
own  States;  that  come  here  as  bold  and  inde- 
pendent Republicans,  and  who  are  as  good  Re- 
publicans at  home  as  here,  should  be  voted  out. 


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Thev  are  representatives  of  the  party  so  far  as 
the  party  in  these  States  extends,  and  we  wish 
to  build  up  the  party  in  those  States.  I  hope 
that  this  Convention  never  will  adopt  the  prin- 
ciple to  exclude  these  gentlemen  who  come  here 
from  the  southern  States,  because  we  may  yet 
take  a  candidate  from  one  of  those  Southern 
States.  I  know  not  what  may  be  the  result. 

Mr.  ARMOUR,  ot  Maryland— Mr.  Chair- 
man, I  stand  before  this  Convention  and 
this  assembled  host  of  freemen,  a  rep- 
resentative from  the  State  of  Maryland. 
[Applause,  and  three  cbeers  for  Mary- 
land.] I  claim  to  be  as  true  a  Republican  as 
the  distinguished  member  of  the  People's  part? 
from  Pennsylvania.  [Laughter  and  much  ap- 
plause.] I  have  dared  more  than  be  has  ever 
dared.  [Applause.]  I  have  periled  more  than 
he  has  ever  periled.  He  lives  in  a  free  State; 
he  breathes  the  pure  air  ot  the  grand  old  Key- 
stone State,  and  jet  they  have  not  arrived  at  | 
a  condition  in  which  they  are  willing  to  avow 
themselves  Republicans.  [Great  applause.]  I 
faced  the  mob  in  Baltimore;  I  faced  the  mob 
urged  on  by  the  aristocracy  of  the  custom  house,  | 
menial  hirelings  of  this  corrupt  Administration.  | 
I  went  to  my  home  and  found  that  I  bad  been 
burned  in  * ffigy  and  suspended  by  the  neck, 
because  I  dared  avow  myself  the  friend  of  free- 
dom. We  met  in  Baltimore,  in  obedience  to 
the  call  of  the  National  Committee.  We  have 
a  party  in  Maryland,  and  we  can  poll  from  three 
to  four  thousand  vote«,  [a  voice,  "  good  for 
you,"  and  applause,]  and  if  ever  we  expect  Re- 
publican principles  to  prevail  all  ever  tois  land, 
we  must  organize,  and  you  who  live  in  the 
norfhern  States  roust  fraternize  with  us,  and 
not  despise  the  day  of  our  small  things.  [Ap- 
plause.] There  is  the  coat  of  arms  of  my  grand 
little  commonwealth,  "  (Jrtscite  it  Multif>hcami- 
ni."  And  that  shall  be  the  motto  of  the  Republi- 
cans of  Maryland.  We  will  grow  and  we  will  in- 
crease*  until  Massachusetts,  Pennsylvania,  and 
all  the  States  of  the  Northwest,  will  welcome 
our  grand  little  commonwealth  to  the  band  of 
States  which  have  ever  been  unshrinking  in  their  | 
devotion  and  their  loyalty  to  the  cause  of  bu  j 
man  freedom.  I  scorn  >be  idea.  I  am  proud  to  | 
despise  the  sentiment  which  says  that  northern 
influence  has  been  brought  to  bear  upon  us. 
We  are  unpurchased,  and  unpurchaseable. 
[Loud  applause  ]  And  we  tell  Pennsylvania  to 
put  that  in  her  pioe  and  amokeit.  [Laughter 
and  applause.]  Exclude  us  from  the  Conven- 
tion if  you  will — turn  us  out  of  these  doors; 
[cries  of  "  no,"  and  "  we  won't"]  we  will  go 
home,  notwithstanding,  and  nominate  an  elect- 
oral ticket,  and  under  the  blessing  of  Heaven 
we  will  do  all  that  we  can  to  advance  the  cause 
of  humanity.  I  beg  not  for  northern  rotes  to 
sustain  us  here.  I  am  cure  there  will  be  a  spon- 
taneous outburst  lor  freedom,  of  the  true  sym- 
pathy of  the  people  here.  An<1  if  this  conven- 
tion attempts  to  exclude  us,  that  large  assem- 
blage of  people  will  frown  it  down.  [Applause.] 
I  have  vindicated  myself.  I  have  vindicated  my 
co-deUgates.  I  have  vindicated  my  State. 
Your  applause  assures  me  of  that  fact,  and  I 
will  give  wav.  [Three  cheers  for  Maryland.] 

Mr.  JAMES  WYSE  (of  D.  C.)— Mr.  Presi- 
dent :  I  come  from  the  Capitol  of  this  great  and 
mighty  Republic,  and  like  my  friend,  I  am  de- 
scended trom  old  Maryland.  [Applause.]  I 
stand  in  this  mighty  Convention  congregated  in 
the  Queen  City  ot  the  Great  West,  a  represen 
tative  from  the  District  of  Columbia  of  the  great 
Repub  ican  party.  |Loud  cheers]  I  stand 
here  the  representative  of  the  persecu  ed  aud 
down-trodden,,  and  disfranchised  people,  that 


have  no  vote  for  President;  no  voice  in  Con- 
gress, and  no  voice  anywhere  to  legislate  for  us, 
and  yet  our  Territory  contains  ahundied  thous. 
and  freemen.  I  came  to  this  city  as  a  repre- 
sentative of  the  Republican  party  for  no  sinister 
purpose,  but  for  the  people  of  that  disfran- 
chised District.  We  claim  from  the  people  of 
this  country  the  right  of  franchise;  we  claim 
the  right  of  citizen*.h;p,  we  claim  to  be  heard 
in  this  discussion,  and  not  be  silent  longer  in 
this  Republic.  We  have  no  Legislature.  We 
ask  of  Congress  a  Legislature,  and  we  intend 
that  they  shall  give  us  a  Terri'orial  Legislature 
and  a  representation  in  Congress — that  we  shall 
have  our  own  laws,  and  that  Congress  will  corn- 
firm  them — that  we  will  be  a  pec  pie  and  have  a 
word  in  this  great  Republic.  I  come  here  to 
tell  this  people  that  they  have  trodden  down 
the  Republican  party  with  the  iron  heel  of  dea- 
potism,  worse  and  more  tyrannical  than  thai  o; 
Russia  or  the  Austrian  empire.  What  bus  not 
Buchanan  Administration  done?  Why,  Sir, 
they  have  gone  into  the  workshops  of  the  gor- 
ernment  to  seek  out  a  Republican  and  then 
turn  him  out  to  grass,  taking  the  bread 
from  his  family,  if  he  did  not  bow  down  to  tfce 
slave  power.  But  thanks  be  t«  God,  we  come 
here  like  the  gentleman  from  Maryland,  daring 
to  be  Republicans;  and  we  will  baptize  that 
District  of  Columbia  over  again  ;  and,  by  th« 
help  of  God,  we  will  exclude  slavery  from  it  in 
less  than  two  years.  (Applause.) 

Mr.  BLAKEY,  of  Kentucky — Having  just 
arrived  from  a  meeting  of  the  Committee  on 
Platform,  I  understand  that  a  proposition  has 
been  maue  that  this  Convention  fchali  exclude 
the  delegates  from  the  State  which  in  part  I  re- 
present. I  should  not  have  been  more  sur- 
prised had  I  been  told  that  a  proposition  had 
been  gravely  made  that  the  ashes  o<  Washing- 
ton should  have  been  phced  without  the  pale 
of  this  continent.  [Cheers  1  I  should  not  have 
been  more  surprised  had  I  been  told  that  a  pro- 
position bad  been  gravely  made  that  the  re- 
mains, the  precious  remains,  now  sileatly  rest- 
ing under  the  shade  of  Ashland,  should  be  re- 
moved from  the  precious  soil  of  Kentucky;  nor 
should  I  have  been  more  surprised  had  I  been 
informed  that  it  has  been  gravely  proposed  that 
Cassius  M.  Clay  [applause]  t-bould  be  buried. 
Who  dare  propose,  I  say,  to  institute  a  proposi- 
tion here  that  that  the  free  born  sons  of  Ken- 
tucky and  of  Virginia,  and  of  Maryland,  and  of 
the  District  of  Columbia,  or  even  of  Georgia,  or 
any  Southern  Stale,  have  not  just  as  good  a 
right  to  be  Republicans  and  breathe  free  air, 
and  be  free  men  upon  American  soil  as  the  old 
Key  Stone  State.  [Applause.]  Gentlemen,  I 
have  but  one  word  more  to  say,  and  I  want  it 
to  be  heard,  and  I  wish  it  could  be  beard  from 
one  end  of  the  continent  to  the  other.  I  bad 
the  honor  of  a  situation,  a  prominent  position, 
it  was  a  position  of  which  my  children  and 
grand-children  will  be  proud,  in  the  Republican 
Convention  of  1850.  [Applause.]  When  the  vote 
of  Kentucky  was  called  for  candidate  for  the 
Vice  Presidency,  I  had  the  honor  then  and  ihtre? 
to  announce  that  Kentucky  h«d  bten  experi- 
menting; that  we  had  held  up  the  Declaration 
of  Independence  before  tbe  mirror,  and  so  re- 
flected the  platform  of  the  17th  of  June,  1856  ; 
that  we  had  held  np  the  precious  Ordinance  of 
1787,  and  so  reflected  the  Wilmot  Proviso  ;  [ap- 
plause] that  our  vo'es  were  cast  for  David  Wu- 
mot.  [Laughter  and  applause.]  Thus  stood 
Kentucky  in  1856!  Can  I  be  forgiven  for  that 
sin?  [Applause  and  laughter."! 

Mr.  PHILLIPS,  of  Kansas— Mr.  President 
and  gentlemen  of  the  Republican  Convention  • 


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I  sfnnd  here  with  my  fellow  coBeaapes  to  rep- 
resent the  people  of  Kansas.  The  Republicans 
of  Kansas,  whom  we  hare  the  honor  to  repre- 
sent upon  ty.is  floor,  sent  us  here,  expecting 
that  we  would  have  several  grave  issues  to 
mee%  but  they  did  cot  expect  that  the  repre- 
sentatives of  Kansas  would  have  to  appear  up- 
on this  fl  'or  with  proof  that  Kansas  is  an  inte- 
gral part  of  the  Republican  party.  Kansas  and 
:he  Republican  party  were  born  together. — 
[Hearty  applause.]  Its  first  impulses  were 
stirred  by  :he  wrongs  of  her  people  ;  the  party 
was  baptized  in  her  blood.  [Rapturous  ap 
plause.] 

The  people  of  Kansas  in  1856  appeared  in  the 
National  Republican  Convention,  and  threw  a 
vote  for  the  ihen  Republican  nominee.  T'  e 
people  of  Kansas  throughout  the  whole  of  their 
struggle  have  vindicated  in  Kansas  the  Repub 
lican  party,  their  cause  and  their  principles. 
It  may  be  said  to  day  that  Kansas  is  not  a 
State — Kansas  is  fcarcely  a  Territory;  but 
the  cause  of  liberty  is  identified  with 
her  history.  She  has  a  history  and  a 
g'orious  one.  This  Administration,  whose  duty 
n  was  to  foster  this  infant  State,  has  dealt  with 
Kansas  with  a  harsh  rule.  The  hand  of  the 
Administration,  that  she  has  felt  so  often,  has 
been  a  hard  stern  hand  ;  and  all  has  been  done 
to  keep  her  back,  and  prevent  her  from  rising 
and  bearing  aloft  the  banner  of  Republican  lib- 
erty. She  has  been  not  only  persecuted,  but 
tempted.  If  Kansas  had  accepted  the  Lecomp- 
ton  bribe,  she  would  have  been  a  State  to-day. 
If  Kansas  had  not  been  one  of  the  strongest 
and  best  united  organizations  in  the  Republican 
Darty,  she  would  have  been  received  into  the 
Union  years  ago,  by  the  Democrats  at  Wash- 
ington. [Applause  ]  But  Kansas  scorned  the 
L-compton  bribe,  and  stands  there  to-day,  and 
will  stand  forever,  a  Republican  State.  [Great 
cheers ] 

Mr.  Chairman — Kansas  does  not  expect  to 
come  into  this  Convention  and  be  alienated 
from  the  Republican  party.  She  stands  now  a 
Territory,  because  she  would  not  share,  or  ac- 
cept, the  spoils  of  the  Democratic  party.  She 
has  alienated  herself,  from  every  thing,  to  iden- 
ti'y  her  people  and  destiny  with  the  cause  of  the 
Nation;;!  Republican  party;  and  now  I  don't 
think  the  time  has  ceme  when  ihe  Republicans 
can  alienate  Kansas  from  the  National  Republi- 
can party.  [Loud  Cheers  ]  1  do  not  wish  to 
consume  the  time  of  this  Conveation  by  urging 
this  point.  1  do  not  th:..k  the  gentlemen  of  this 
Convention  will  demand  t&at  Kansas  shall  be 
excluded.  She  has  come  iiere  to  say  if  she  have 
preferences,  she  will  exercise  those  preferences, 
or  leave  this  ball.  Kansas  believes  in  the  right, 
which  baa  carried  her  through  many  a  dark 
hour;  and  she  believes  that  it  is  principle  alone 
which  will  curry  the  Republican  cause  through 
ia  triumph. 

Mr.  WILMOT,  of  Pennsylvania — I  regret  ex 
ceedingly  that  I  was  misunderstood  by  the  gen- 
tlemen who  have  responded  to  me  in  behalf  of 
the  States  of  Maryland,  Virginia,  and  Kentucky. 
I  made  no  proposition  to  exclude  those  gentle- 
men from  a  (air  icpresentation  upon  this  floor — 
[applause]— none  at  all.  I  proposed  that  cer- 
tain States  be  referred  back  to  the  Committee 
for  the  purpose  of  an  investigation,  to  see  what 
vote  the c  are  entitled  to  upon  this  floor. 

Mr.  BLAKbY — I  was  not  present  \\henthe 
proposition  was  made. 

Mr.  WILMOT — In  the  course  of  my  argu- 
ment I  presented  certain  considerations  that 
seemed  to  me  to  be  entitled  to  wtight,  to  wit. : 
that  gentlemen  who  come  up  here  tepresenting 


no  party — hiving  no  constituencies—  were  not 
entitled  to  vote  tor  their  States  upon  this  floor. 
That  was  the  simple  proposition  that  I  made. 
Now,  I  desire  that  the  facts  be  inquired  iuto. 
Will  it  be  pretended  that  thirty  gentleman, 
meeting  at  the  city  ot  Baltimore,  not  delega'63 
from  the  Counties  of  the  State,  but  gentlemen 
assembling  together — have  a  right  to  represent 
and  select  twenty  delegates? 

Mr.  ARMOUR — Will  you  allow  me  to  correct 
you  f 

Mr.  WTLMOT— Certainly. 

Mr.  ARMOUR— There  tias  existed  in  Balti- 
more City,  for  a  number  of  years,  a  Republican 
Association.  That  Association,  in  obedience  to 
the  call  of  the  National  Executive  Committee, 
issued  calls  for  the  Republicans  of  Maryland  to 
meet  in  Baltimore,  at  such  a  time  specified  in 
the  call,  for  the  purpose  of  nominating  an  elec- 
toral ticket  and  sending  delegates  to  this  Con- 
vention. When  that  Convention  met,  every 
Congressional  district  in  the  State  of  Maryland 
was  represented.  [Applause.]  There  were 
gentlemen  from  the  Eastern  Shore  and  the 
Western  Shore — from  the  extreme  East  to  the 
extreme  West.  There  were  perhaps  only  thirty- 
five  or  forty  delegates  ;  but  there  were  at  least 
150  or  200  Republicans  in  the  Convention.  Bal- 
timore Ci'y  sent  only  eleven  delegates,  and 
therefore  she  was  entitled  to  only  eleven  votes, 
yet  the  hall  was  full  of  Republicans.  My  town 
is  full  of  Republicans;  and  I  wish  to  say,  in  re- 
ply to  the  remark  of  the  Judge  that  we  have  no 
party  in  Maryland,  I  have  the  assurance  of  a 
gentleman,  and  know  it  to  be  true,  that  in  my 
town — which  polls  only  about  900  votes — we 
can  poll  400  votes  at  the  next  election,  nearly 
half  the  votes  of  the  town — not  of  the  diatrict. 
This  is  all  I  have  to  say. 

Mn.  WILMOT— The  explanation  that  the  gen- 
tleman has  made,  if  it  does  anything,  would  en- 
force the  propriety  of  my  motion.  What  I  have 
desired  is, that  the  committee  should  investigate 
this  subject,  and  should  report  the  facts  in  re- 
spect to  these  States.  That  is  what  I  have  de- 
sired. If  Maryland  be  properly  represented 
here ;  if  there  be  a  party  in  Maryland,  whether 
great,  large  or  small,  that  stands  as  an  organ- 
ized party  in  the  field,  that  is  the  point;  not 
that  there  may  be  Republicans  scattered  over 
the  State.  There  may  be  a  majority  in  the  town 
in  which  the  gentleman  lives.  There  may  be 
individual  Republicans  scattered  over  that  State 
in  every  county,  but  have  they  combined  to- 
gether in  a  political  organ:zation,  and  do  they 
come  here  representing  an  organized  party  ? 
That  is  the  question  I  oeshe  ihis  committee  "to 
enquire  into,  and  that  is  the  very  object  of  the 
motion.  The  committee  might  report  that  Ma- 
ryland was  entitled  to  her  senatorial  votes  on 
this  floor,  and  that  she  was  entitled  to  a  vote 
from  such  and  such  a  district.  If  they  so  re- 
ported upon  the  facts  before  them  I  shall 
be  willing  to  accept  that  report.  So  too 
as  to  Virginia,  if  the  committee  reparted 
that  certain  districts  in  Virginia  tock 
regular  action  as  an  organized  party  and 
elected  their  delegates,  and  were  entitled  to  so 
many  votes,  I  should  be  will  ng  to  accept  that 
report,  and  in  addition,  Jf  Should  stand  ready  to 
give  tbem  the  two  electoral  votes  of  their  State. 
So  in  respect  to  Texas.  But  what  are  the  facts 
about  her,  gentlemen.  I  speak  of  it  upon  no- 
thing but  rumor  and  as  a  rumor — I  don't  assert 
the  fact  for  I  know  nothing  about  it — but  I  am 
told  that  the  gentlemen  who  are  here  from 
Texas,  or  a  majority  of  them  are  not  residents 
of  the  State  at  all,  and  that  they  have  no  Re- 
publican organization  in  that  State.  It  may  be 


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asked  of  me  why  I  do  not  speak  of  Oregon. 
But  we  know  that  Oregon  has  a  formidable 
party  ;  we  know  that  they  held  a  regular  State 
Convention  and  that  they  elected  their  dele- 
gates directly,  and  that  these  gentlemen  are 
entitled  to  their  seats ;  so  if  Texas  has  held  a 
regular  convention  and  elected  her  delegates 
and  they  find  it  inconvenient  to  attend  as  dele- 
gates, then  gentlemen  they  are  entitled  to  seats 
on  this  floor.  But  if  there  has  been  no  conven- 
tion— no  movement  in  Texas,  if  nothing  having 
the  semblance  of  a  party  has  taken  action  in 
the  State  of  Texas,  and  certain  gentlemen  are 
here  for  the  purpose  of  controlling  this  result, 
then  I  say  it  is  mischievous,  it  is  demoralizing; 
it  will  break  up  any  party  under  God's  heaven. 
Will  the  distinguished  gentleman  from  New 
York,  a  candidate  before  this  Convention,  or 
rather  his  friends,  consent  that  they  shall  be 
overslaughed  cr  defeated  by  the  votes  of 
gentleman  representing  no  party,  by  gentlemen 
having  no  constituents?  Will  the  friends  of  the 
candidate  which  Pennsylvania  will  present  sub- 
mit to  such  a  procedure?  If  they  do,  it  would 
be  extremely  hard — it  would  be  difficult  to  en- 
force  submission.  This  was  the  object  of  my 
proposition.  I  wish  gentlemen  instead  of  in- 
dulging in  declamation  and  rhetorical  flourishes, 
in  appeals  to  the  ashes  of  Washington,  had 
consented  to  leave  the  question  fairly  to  ar- 
gument I  raised  no  question  with  the  "  gude 
man  "  from  Maryland  as  to  who  has  dared  more 
or  suffered  more  in  this  cause.  I  concede  to 
him  and  his  associates  the  palm  of  victory  in 
that.  But  if  every  Republican  who  has  suffer- 
ed in  the  cause  of  freedom  is  to  come  in  to  set- 
tle this  question,  then  the  little  Territory  of 
Kansas  can  control  this  convention — under  that 
rule  the  has  the  right  to  control  it.  She  has 
poured  out  her  blood  freely  in  this  cause.  The 
graves  of  our  murdered  sons  are  scattered  all 
over  her  territory,  if  the  question  is  as  to 
those  who  have  suffered  in  the  cause  of  Repub- 
licanism, who  have  been  mobbed,  and  those 
are  to  come  here  and  control  this  Convention, 
then  let  us  adjourn  and  invite  Kansas  to  come 
here  in  a  body,  man,  woman  and  child,  and  let 
them  say  whom  the  Republican  party  shall  nom- 
inate as  candidate  for  President.  The  simple 
question  is,  are  all  the  "  gude  men  "  here  from 
Virginia,  Maryland,  Texas  and  certain  other 
districts  as  representatives,  or  all  being 
here  ai  individual  Republicans  ?  I  don't 
question  their  Republicanism.  I  have  no  doubt 
upon  that  point.  I  cast  no  imputations  upon 
thsir  integrity  ;  but  this  I  do  assert,  that  if  this 
precedent  be  adopted,  that  at  the  next  Con- 
vention the  sympathies  or  the  anxiety  of  friends 
to1  secure  their  candidate  may  impel  them  t  o 
secure  delegates  here  from  every  State  of 
the  Union,  not  because  there  is  a  party  there  to 
represent,  but  because  the  anxiety  of  the  friends 
ofcandidates  will  bring  men  here.  Would  it 
be  difficult  to  find  twelve  men  in  the  State  of 
Tennessee  who  are  Republicans?  I  doubt  no* 
If  inducements  were  held  out  to  them  they  could 
come  here  from  Georgia,  Alabama,  Mississippi, 
and  all  the  Southern  States.  Then  what  would 
be  the  result?  Instead  of  requiring  304  votes, 
you  would  have  to  require  that  there  should  be 
500  votes.  Why  require  400,  or  why  require 
304,  except  that  you  have  already  virtually  de- 
moralized the  Convention?  If  you  have  men 
here  who  do  not  represent  an  organized  party 
at  home,  they  should  not  cast  votes  for  their 
States  for  a  Republican  President.  It  was  for 
the  purpose  of  inquiry,  net  to  proscribe  or  dis- 
franchise anybody,  that  my  motion  was  made. 
Mr.  MONTGOMERY  BLAIR,  of  Maryland- 


Will  you  permit  a  delegate  from  Maryland  to 
say  one  word.  I  wish  merely  to  say  to  the  Con- 
vention— [VOICES — "  Louder  !"J  I  can  only 
make  myself  heard  over  a  small  space.  But 
I  must  say  one  word,  and  that  is,  so  far  as  my 
feelings  are  concerned,  and  of  a  large  ma- 
jority of  tkose  with  whom  I  am  associated  on 
this  floor,  the  sentiments  uttered  by  the 
honorable  gent'eman  from  Pennsjlvan'a  meet 
our  entire  accord.  [Applause.]  We  wish  no 
larger  voice  in  this  deliberation  than  the  gentle- 
men of  the  Convention  with  whom  we  are 
associated  shall  deem  our  members  and  those 
whom  we  represent  entitled  to  have  on  this 
floor.  [Cheers.]  We  do  not  come  here  (and  I 
speak  for  myself  and.  I  believe,  a  large  portion 
of  those  representing  the  slave  States  on  this 
floor),  we  do  not  wish  to  stand  here  as 
dictating  to  those  who  have  to  eleci  the  candi- 
dates. We  are  willing;  we  ask  only  to  be  heard 
and  if  permitted  we  will  give  our  votes  in  the 
direction  which  we  think  ought  to  be  taken  by 
the  Convention  ;  but  we  do  not  wish,  and  we 
will  endearor  so  to  act — and  I  am  sure  I  repre- 
sent the  sentiments  of  those  who  are  associated 
with  me — upon  this  point  as  not  to  give  any 
controlling  voice  in  the  Convention.  [Ap- 
plause.] That  is  all  I  have  to  say  upon  the 
subject.  I  would  be  glad  to  have  some  action, 
if  the  Convention  deem  it  necessary,  taken  up- 
on the  point  which  the  honorable  gentleman 
from  Pennsylvania  has,  I  think,  timely  made 
before  this  body,  and  I  therefore  second  his 
motion.  [Applause.] 

Mr  CLEVELAND,  (of  Conn).  I  respect  ex- 
•eedingly  the  remarks  of  the  gentleman  from 
Maryland,  Mr.  Montgomery  Blair;  lean  see 
imminent  danger  in  this  movement  now  made, 
and  I  look  upon  it  as  unfortunate.  Wt  are 
here  to  day  with  high  hopes  of  victory — with 
almost  the  assurances  of  victory.  We  should 
remember  that  in  consequence  of  the  action  of 
one  solitary  man  as  a  representative  in  Con- 
gress, for  the  State  of  Maryland — to  Henry 
W.  Davis — we  have  a  Speaker  by  whom  we  have 
been  able  to  expose  the  corrupt  frauds  of  the 
Administration  and  give  us  the  assurance  of 
victory  inevitable.  (Loud  cheers).  And  yet 
we  are  not  willing  to  give  her  a  full  vote!  In 
the  name  of  God  and  humanity  what  are  we  do- 
ing? I  beard  a  Maryland  delegate  say  he  was 
willing  to  take  a  half  loaf  of  bread.  I  want  to 
give  her  all ;  she  has  given  us  all.  (Cheers). 
..This  is  all  on  that  point.  We  have  been  charged 
for  years  with  being  a  sectional  party.  The  lie 
do«s  not  stick  in  their  throats,  but  we  can  make 
it  stick  in  ours  and  theirs  by  our  folly;  we  are  not 
a  sectional  party !  ( Cheers.)  We  want  the 
slave  States  to  come  here  and  be  represented. 
I  s*y  in  this  very  connection,  that  knowingly  or 
not  the  understanding  of  the  slave  States  is 
that  the  power  is  to  be  changed  from  the  hands 
of  the  slave  oligarchy  and  placed  in  the  bands 
of  the  friends  of  freedom,  in  the  free  States  as 
well  as  the  slave  States,  and  hence  they  deserve 
to  share  in  this  great  and  glorious  work.  If  we 
succeed  next  fall,  as  I  believe  we  shall,  with 
mep  competent  to  take  charge  of  the  govern- 
ment, and  put  secession  and  disunion  where  it 
belongs,  (and  God  grant  we  may  all  live  to  see 
it,)  we  will  probably  have  the  entire  slave  States 
1  represented  in  our  next  National  Convention. 
(Loud  cheers.)  I  believe  it.  Why  should  we 
not?  The  disunionists  are  in  a  small  minority 
'  in  the  slave  States,  and  they  keep  down  the  ma- 
'  jority  by  just  such  unwise  operations  as  was  at- 
!  tempted  here  this  morning.  If  we  treat  them 
I  kindly  and  hold  our  hand  out  to  them,  as  men 
I  competent  to  fill  the  high  offices  of 


the  United  States,  we  shall  hare 
the  majority  out  from  under  the  heel  of  the 
slave  oligarchy.  We  shall  unite  the  voice  of 
the  American  people  in  favor  of  the  Republican 
organization.  I  say,  sir,  and  I  wish  it  to  be  un- 
derstood everywhere,  I  am  not  here  for  the 
purpose  of  making  war  on  the  slave  States, 
nor  do  I  believe  that  there  is  a  man  in  this  house 
who  is.  We  have  been  charged  with  that.  It 
is  false  and  they  know  it.  We  are  here  for  the 
purpose  of  satisfying  the  American  people  that 
we  are  willing  to  give  the  slave  States  their  en- 
t.re  rights.  We  say  to  those  gentlemen,  with 
tnat  you  will  be  content — beyond  that  you  shall 
not  go.  A  large  majority  of  the  voters  South, 
if  tLey  dare  express  it,  in  the  South,  would  be 
with  us.  Their  hearts  are  with  us  now.  For 
God's  sake,  and  humanity's  sake,  let  us  not  es- 
tablish the  fact,  by  our  folly,  that  we  are  a  sec- 
tional party,  and  hate  the  slave  States.  [Cheers.]. 

Mr.  UVLER,  of  Indiana — I  merely  desire, 
g*tuWemen,  to  call  the  attention  of  this  Conven- 
tion to  the  call  inviting  delegates  to  this  Con- 
vention. Read  and  reflect  for  one  minute 
what  that  caU  contains  and  it  settles  this  ques- 
tion. What  is  it: 

"  The  Republican  electors  of  the  several 
states,  the  members  of  the  people's  party  of 
Tennsylvania  and  of  the  opposition  party  of 
New  Jersey,  and  all  others  who  are  willing  to 
co-operate  with  them  in  support  of  the  candi- 
dates which  shall  there  be  nominated,  and  who 
are  opposed  to  the  policy  of  the  present  admin- 
istration, to  federal  corruption  and  usurpation, 
to  the  extension  of  slavery  into  the  territories, 
to  the  new  and  dangerous  political  doctrine  that 
the  Constitution  of  its  own  force  ca  ries  slavery 
into  all  the  territories  of  the  United  States, 
to  the  opening  of  the  African  slave  trade,  to 
any  inequality  of  rights  among  citizens;  and 
who  are  in  favor  of  the  immediate  admission  of 
Kansas  into  the  Union,  under  the  Constitution 
recently  adopted  by  its  people,  of  restoring  the 
federal  administration  to  a  system  of  rigid 
economv  and  to  the  principles  of  Washington 
and  Jefferson,  of  maintaining  inviolate  the 
rights  of  the  States  and  defending  the  soil  of 
every  State  and  Territory  from  lawless  inva- 
sion, and  of  preserving  the  integrity  of  this 
Union  and  the  supremacy  of  the  Constitution 
and  laws  passed  in  pursuance  thereof  against 
the  conspiracy  of  the  leaders  of  a  sectional 
^arty,  to  resist  the  majority  principle  as  estab- 
lished in  this  government  even  at  the  expense 
of  its  existence — are  invited  to  send  from  each 
State  two  delegates  from  each  Congressional 
district,  and  four  delegates  at  large  to  the  Con- 
vention." 

Why,  when  we  have  issued  a  call  to  those 
men,  called  them  from  the  sunny  shores  of  the 
South  to  the  bleak  regions  of  the  North,  to  meet 
us,  why  should  be  mooted  the  right  of  these 
gentlemen  to  vote  to  select  a  candidate  and 
with  us  go  home  to  help  us  elect  the  man  that 
we  may  nominate,  and  carry  forward  the  prtn- 
eiples  that  we  proclaim  here.  [Cheers.]  I  say, 
gentlemen,  you  can't  discuss  this  question.  The 
question  is  settled  by  the  call.  It'  we  are  hon- 
est, if  we  are  not  the  veriest  hypocrites  in  the 
world,  we  have  no  right  to  question  the  ri^ht 
of  the  slave  States  to  be  represented  here  upon 
this  floor.  [Applause.] 

1  have  a  word  to  say  about  the  Territories.  I 
don't  think  that  they  stand  upon  the  same 
ground.  The  call  is  not  to  them.  They  have 
no  vote  for  our  candidates  after  we  have  nomi- 
nated them,  and  I  am  in  favor  of  following  out 
the  rule  of  the  federation — I  am  in  favor  of  the 
delegates  from  the  Territories  holding  seats  up- 
2  • 


on  this  floor,  being  heard,  and  attentively  heard, 
on,  our  part;  I  am  in  favor  of  their  counselling 
with  us,  but  when  it  comes  to  the  vote,  as  they 
have  no  vote  lor  the  ticket,  they  ought  not  to 
vote  formally.  The  District  of  Columbia  is  in 
the  same  fix. 

Gov.  REEDER,  of  Pennsylvana  [in  his  seat] 
— Mr.  Chairman,  [cries  of  "  take  the  stand,"]  1 
ean  be  heard  here  if  I  can  get  started.  I  have 
not  much  to  say,  but  what  I  have  to  say,  I  shall 
endeavor  to  say  to  the  point.  It  seems  to  me 
that  a  great  deal  has  been  said  altogether  out- 
side of  this  question  now  before  the  Conven- 
tion. The  proposition  before  us,  if  I  under- 
stand it,  is  to  refer  this  report  back  to  the  Com- 
mittee lor  the  purpose  of  ascertaining  whether 
these  gentlemen  now  here  upon  the  floor  of  the 
Convention  from  the  States  designated,  repre- 
"sent  the  entire,  or  less  than  the  entire  State. 

Now,  sir,  all  the  eloquence,  and  all  the  fire  of 
many  of  the  gentlemen  upon  the  other  side,  is 
lost,  when  we  make  the  avowal  that  we  have  not 
the  most  remote  idea  of  disfranchising  the  del- 
egates who  come  here  from  the  southern  States. 
[Loud  applause.]  Sir,  we  humbly  ask  from  our 
southern  brethren  upon  this  floor,  the  poor 
privilege  of  being  put  upon  an  equality  with 
them.  [Renewed  applause.]  When  Pennsyl- 
vania, Illinois,  Indiana,  ana  Iowa  come  here, 
sir,  with  a  delegation  from  one,  two,  or  three 
congressional  districts,  do  you  allow  them  to 
vote  for  the  entire  State?  No,  sir;  they  would 
not  ask  it.  They  could  not  get  it  if  they  did 
ask.  If  there  is  a  delegation  here  from  the 
State  of  Maryland  from  one,  two,  or  three  con- 
gressional districts,  we  want  them  to  vote  for 
one,  two,  or  three  congressional  districts.  [Ap- 
plause.] But,  when  they  vote  the  entire  vote 
of  the  State  of  Maryland,  and  the  yote  of  the 
electors  at  large,  they  have  a  great  advantage 
over  us.  What  I  wish  to  avoid,  sir,  is  that,  in 
any  state,  whether  north  or  south,  east  or  west, 
a  few  men  should  come  from  a  single  county,  or 
a  single  congressional  district,  representing  on- 
ly that  county,  or  that  congressional  district, 
and  then  come  upon  the  floor  of  this  convention 
and  ask  to  cast  the  entire  vote  of  the  State. 

Now,  sir,  I  ask  these  gentlemen  who  have  de- 
claimed so  loudly  and  so  eloquently  in  favor  of 
our  brethren  of  the  South  to  listen  to  us ;  and 
no  man  on  this  floor  or  away  from  this  floor 
can  go  farther  than  I  in  my  admiration  for 
those  gentlemen  who  stand  up  in  the  face  of 
the  despotism  exercised  by  the  oligarchy  that 
surrounds  them,  and  contend  for  the  rights  of 
free  speech,  free  labor,  and  free  men.  [Ap- 
plause.] Sir,  I  know  what  the  despotism  of  that 
oligarchy  is.  [Great  applause.]  I  know,  sir, 
that  it  hunts  men  like  hounds  who  have  the 
spirit  of  freemen.  [Renewed  applause.]  I  re- 
spect and  I  admire  every  man  to  whom  God 
has  given  the  nerve  and  the  back-bone  to  stand 
up  and  face  that  despotism.  [Continued  ap- 
plause.] I  am  ready  to  extend  the  right  hand 
of  fellowship  to  all  the  gentlemen  who  have 
eome  "tried  out  of  the  fire"  to  meet 
us  in  this  National  conclave.  What 
I  ask  of  them  is  the  poor  privilege  of 
being  on  an  equal  footing  with  them  in  this  Con- 
veution.  I  am  sure  they  ought  not  and  would 
not  ask  any  more ;  but  if  gentlemen  are  here 
representing  a  single  district  from  the  State  of 
Texas,  or  a  single  district  from  the  State  of 
Maryland,  or  Irom  the  State  of  Kentucky,  will 
they,  sir,  be  unjust  and  unfair  enough  to  stand 
up  here,  being  the  representatives  of  a  single 
district,  and  ask  to  cast  the  vote  of  the  entire 
State?  Assuredly  not  sir;  and  assuredly  those 
gentlemen,  when  they  come  to  reflect  upon  this 


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subject,  will  see  the  propriety  of  ascertaining 
how  much  of  their  State  is  represented,  and 
having  found  that,  to  apportion  their  vote  ac- 
cording to  what  they  really  represent,  giving  to 
then  suoh  a  rote  as  they  represent;  and  I 
would  be  willing  to  have  them  then  throw  the 
trn«  vote  to  which  they  are  entitled.  [Pro- 
longed applause,  and  cries  of  "  question," 
"  questio*."] 

MR.  BUCKLAND,  of  Michigan— I  cannot  dis 
cover  what  objeet  is  to  be  gained  by  referring 
back  that  report  to  the  Committee,  but  that  the 
gentleman  may  have  the  benefit  of  his  motion, 
I  wish  to  make  an  amendment.  I  propose  to 
include,  also,  Oregon. 

The  CHAIR— I  will  put  the  question  first,  on 
the  original  recommitment. 

MR.  BUCKLAND— I  propose  to  make  an 
amendment,  and  I  believe  the  vote  should  first 
be  taken  upon  my  motion  to  amend. 

MR.  McCRILLIS,  of  Mame— I  have  a  single 
word  to  say,  in  reply  to  the  gentleman  from  In- 
diana. I  agree  with  the  gentleman  in  the  doc- 
trines be  announces,  as  to  the  Territories ;  all 
of  them,  sir,  except  Kansas.  Why,  I  say  Kan- 
sas is  in  the  Union  now.  It  is  a  rule  of  equity 
that  when  a  thing  ought  to  be  done,  it  is  to  be 
considered  as  done.  [Applause  and  laughter.] 
I  say,  sir,  that  Kansas,  if  she  is  out  of  the 
Union,  is  out  of  the  Union  on  account  of  the 
corrupt  and  despotic  Senate  of  the  United 
States;  and  in  this  Convention  she  should  be 
treated  as  a  sovereign  State.  While  I  am  up,  I 
will  make  a  remark  in  reply  to  the  gentleman 
from  Pennsylvania,  Mr.  Wilmot,  who  told  the 
Convention  that  the  time  would  come,  although 
he  qualified  it  some,  when  South  Carolina, 
Georgia,  Alabama,  and  all  the  Southern  States, 
would  be  represented  in  this  Convention.  On 
behalf  of  the  most  far  off  New  England  State  in 
the  Union,  I  say  that  we  from  that  wild  region 
will  welcome  them — aye,  thrice  welcome  Ihem 
[Applause.] 

Mr.  HACKLEMAN,  of  Indiana— I  have  no 
doubt  about  the  propriety  of  admitting  Kansas 
to  a  vote  in  this  Convention,  but  I  have  great 
doubts  in  regard  to  the  propriety  of  admitting 
the  State  01  Texas.  So  far  as  Virginia,  so  far 
as  Maryland,  or  Missouri,  or  Kentucky,  are 
concerned,  it  is  a  matter  of  public  notoriety 
that  they  have  held  Republican  conventions  to 
appoint  delegates  to  this  Convention ;  but 
where  is  the  notoriety  of  the  convention  of  the 
State  of  Texas.  I  want  to  hear  from  the  Dele- 
gates from  the  State  of  Texas,  to  know  w  jo  ap- 
pointed him  to  come  here.  All  the  others  I 
shall  welcome  with  open  hands.  We  are  no 
sectional  party.  [Applause.]  We  are  the  party 
to  control  this  government,  and  we  want  all 
these  States  here.  But  let  us  know  in  regard 
to  Texas.  I  understand  that  was  the  original 
proposition ;  the  other  was  added  by  way  of 
amendment.  I  do  want  an  investigation,  so  far 
as  Texas  is  concerned. 

MR.  M.  8.  C.  CRAWFORD  of  Texas— Gentle- 
men of  the  Convention,  I  cannot  believe  that  you 
are  prepared  to  stifle  the  voice  ot  Texas,  be- 
cause there  the  Republican  party  is  in  its  infan- 
cy ;  for  ['hough  it  is  in  its  infancy,  it  is 
nevertheless  a  hopeful  child.  [Loud  cheers.] 
Gentlemen,  the  [foreign  population — the  Ger- 
mans— are  with  us.  [Loud  cheers.]  And  there 
will  by  an  electoral  ticket  in  the  field  there. 
We  come  here  with  no  axes  to  grind.  We 
have  our  preferences  to  be  sure,  and  wben  the 
time  comes,  if  we  are  permitted,  we  shall  ex- 
press that  preference.  I  am  sorry  that  this 
motion  should  come  from  the  gentleman 
from  Pennsylvania,  where  there  is  not 


sufficient  pluclc,^  where  there  is  not  the 
moral  courage  to  come  out  and  take  a  manly 
stand  in  favor  of  the  right  as  a  Republican  par- 
ty. [Applause,  cheers  and  a  few  hisses  ]  Or- 
ganize yourselves  and  train  under  the  Republi- 
can oanner  before  you  accuse  us  in  Texas  of 
not  having  a  Republican  organization.  It  is 
unbecoming,  it  is  unmanly,  it  is  anti-Republi- 
can. [Cheers.]  I  hail  from  Galveston.  There 
is  free  soil — ttere  is  anti-slavery  sentiment 
there,  and  it  will  be  expressed  next  fall  at  the 
polls  depend  upon  it.  [Loud  applause  and 
cheers.]  We  ask  a  hearing  on  the  floor  of  this 
Convention,  and  we  believe  you  will  grant  it  to 
us.  [Cheers.] 

Mr.  EGGLESTON,  of  Ohio— 1  understand 
now  that  we  are  about  to  go  into  the  business 
for  which  we  were  convened,  and  that  no  part 
of  that  business  is  the  making  of  sympathy 
speeches  as  to  the  right  to  admit  this  Territory, 
or  that  section  of  country,  as  delegates  into  this 
Convention.  Now,  sir,  the  gentleman  from  In- 
diana has  well  said  that  this  investigation  only 
had  to  be  made  so  far  asrela'esto  Texas.  If 
the  Committee,  which  has  reported,  or  attemp- 
ted to  report  on  credentials,  has  not  the  nerve 
to  go  out,  and  come  in  and  say  to  this  Conven- 
tion what  tluy  believe  riftht,  and  who  should 
vote,  let  them  go  out  again,  and  let  them  come 
in  with  a  definite  report  and  we  will  say  whether 
we  will  support  them  or  no.  For  gentlemen  to 
come  here  and  make  speeches  about  Kansas  is 
entirely  out  of  order  I  have  spent  my  money, 
and  I  have  worked  for  Kansas,  tut  I  am  not  here 
now  to  talk  about  it.  I  am  here  now  to  nom- 
inate the  men  who  shall  be  President  and  Vice 
President  of  the  United  States. 

Mr.  GOODRICH,  of  Minnesota— I  simply  de- 
sire to  say  that  I  am  in  favor  of  less  talk  and 
more  work.  ["Good,"  "  good,"  "  no  more 
speeches  now."]  I  am  not  going  to  make  a 
speech.  I  hope  the  discussion  on  this  ques- 
tion for  the  present,  will  here  terminate,  and 
that  the  question  will  now  be  put.  [Cries  of 
"  Question,  question."] 

Mr.  CARTTER— I  wonld  like  to  have  the 
District  of  Columbia,  Kansas,  and  Nebraska 
included. 

The  question  being  on  the  adoption  of  the 
amendment  of  Mr.  Buckland  of  Michigan,  re- 
committing so  much  of  the  report  as  relates  to 
the  State  of  Oregon,  the  vote  was  taken  and 
the  amendment  was  voted  down. 

The  question  then  being  on  the  adoption  of 
the  amendment  of  Mr.  Wilmot,  recommitting 
such  portion  as  referred  to  Kentucky,  Virginia, 
and  Maryland,  the  vote  was  taken,  and  this 
amendment  was  also  voted  down. 

The  question  then  recurring  on  the  motion 
of  Mr.  Davis  of  Massachusetts,  to  recommit 
such  portion  as  referred  to  Texas,  the  vote 
was  taken  and  the  motion  lost.  [Applause  ] 

Mr.  LOWRY  of  Pennsylvania — I  now  move 
that  the  whole  report  be  recommitted  to  the 
Committee,  and  that  we  take  the  vote  by  States. 

Mr.  EGGLESTON  of  Ohio— And  I  second 
that  motion. 

Mr.  LO  WRY— That  Committee  has  not  given 
us  anything  to  act  upon.  It  h  s  given  us 
nothing.  I  am  not  going  to  inflict  a  speech 
upon  this  Convention,  but  I  ask  that  the  Com- 
mittee have  it  back,  that  they  may  give  us 
something. 

Mr.  BENTON  of  New  Hampshire — I  desire  to 
state  that  the  Committee  appointed  a  sub-Com- 
mittee, who  considered  the  case  of  Maryland 
particularly,  and  they  were  unanimously  of  the 
opiuion  that  the  delegates  reported  from  that 
State  were  entitled  to  represent  the  State  in  this 


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Convention.    They  had  not  the  time  to  make 
that  investigation  in  regard  to  Texas  that  was 
desirable,  but  it  was  understood  that  the  Con 
vention  was  in  session,  waiting  to  receive  the  j 
report  of  the    Committee;    therefore   it    was  | 
thought  desirable,  it  being  the  opinion  of  a  ' 
majority  of  that  Committee  that  they  were  en- 
titled to  their  seats,  so  to  report.     I  think  the 
Committee  was  entirely  satisfied  with  the  evi   j 
dence  furnished  them   as  to   all  the  flelegates 
who  have  been  reported  here  as  being  entitled  i 
to  represent  the  several  States  from  which  they  i 
come.      I  state  this  at  the  request  of  the  mem- 
bers of  that  Committee. 

Mr.  LOWRY— I  call  for  a  vote  by  States. 

The  PRESIDENT— The  Chair  will  inform  the 
gentleman  that  there  is  no  rule  by  which  that 
can  be  arrived  at. 

Motion  to  recommit  lost  on  a  viva  voce  vote. 

A  division  beine  loudly  called  for, 

The  PRESIDENT— A  division  is  called  for. 
With  the  consent  of  the  Convention  the  roll  of 
the  States  will  be  called  for,  and  the  delegations 
will  then  announce  their  votes. 

Mr.  BENTON,  (of  N.  H.,  and  Chairman  of 
the  Committee  on  Credentials,)  I  will  say  here 
that  the  Committee  are  not  satisfied  that  the 
delegates  claiming  seats  ftom  Texas  were  en- 
titled to  them  as  a  whole.  The  Chairman  of 
the  Committee  thought  it  ought  to  have  inves- 
tigation. 

The  roll  of  the  States  was  then  called  on  the 
motion  of  Mr.  Lowry,  of  Pennsylvania,  to  re- 
commit the  report  to  the  Committee  on  Creden- 
tials. 
States.  Ye*.  No.    States.  Yes.  No. 

Maine 3       13    Kentmky 24 

>ew  Hampshire....    9        1    Ohio 46 

Vermont »        1    IndHna 26 

Massachusetts 13         9    Missouri 4       14 

Rtode  Island 8       ..    Michigan 12 

Connecticut 10        2    Illinois 22 

NewYork 1       69    Wbconsin 10 

New  Jer-ey 14    Iowa 8 

Pennsylvania 63X    X    C»lifori  la 4         2 

Maryland 4         6    Minnesota 

Delaware 1        6    Oregon 6 

Virginia 80       .. 

Total 275X  172* 

Mr  GOODRICH,  of  Minnesota.  I  would  add 
instructions  to  accompany  this  amendment. 
(Many  voices  "no.") 

Mr  BURGESS,  of  Ohio.  I  move,  sir,  that  we 
now  adjourn  until  3  o'clock. 

Mr.  CARTTER,  of  Ohio.  I  now  move  that 
this  convention  adjourn  to  meet  again  at  3  o'- 
clock. 

The  convention  adjourned. 

AFTERNOON  SESSION. 

The  Convention  re  assembled  at  3:15  P.  M., 
aud  was  called  to  order  by  the  President. 

The  CHAIR— The  Chair  begs  leave  to  suggest 
that  there  are  outside  of  this  building,  vast  as 
it  is,  twice  as  many  honest  hearts  and  wise 
heads  as  there  are  here.  They  have  requested  me 
to  suggest  that  Gov.  Randall  will  go  out  and 
favor  them  with  his  views.  [Applause,  and 
cries  of  "  Corwin,  Corwin."] 

Mr.  TRACY,  of  Cal.— I  think  Mr.  Corwin  had 
better  go  out  with  Gov.  Randall.  [Laughter.] 

The  Chair  announced  the  report  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Credentials. 

Mr.  BEXTON,  of  New  Hampshire,  Chairman 
of  the  Committee — Mr.  President:  the  Commit- 
tee on  Credentials  have  instructed  me  to  report 
that,  having  examined  the  credentials,  &c.,  of 
the  several  gentlemen  claiming  seats  in  this 
Convention,  tbey  find  gentlemen  entitled  to 
seats  in  the  following  States,  and  each  State  to 
the  following  number  of  delegates : 


No.  of  No.  of 
Dele-     El  VI 

gate;. 
16 

10 
10 

26 


STATES. 


No.  of  No.  cf 
Dele-  ElecYl 
gates,  votes. 
13 


votes. 

Maine 16  8     Indiana 

N  Hunpshire     10  5     Missouri 18  9 

Vermont    .  .      10  6     Michigan 12  6 

Massachusetts     26  13      Illinois 22  11 

Rhodel«!and.       8  4     Wisconsin 10 

ronn  iticut..      12  6     Iowa 8  4 

NewYcrfc....      70  35     California 8  4 

NewJeisev..      14  7     Minnesota 8 

Pennsylvania      64  27     Oreeon ( 

Maryland  ..11  8        TEBBITORIM 

Delaware....         6  8     Kan  as 6 

Virginia 23  15     >ebraska B 

Kentucky....      28  12     Dist  Columbia.    2 

Ohio 4tt  S:< 

[Cries  of  "  Texas."  "  Texas."]  The  committee 
have  considered  the  question  in  regard  to  the 
representation  from  the  State  of  Texas;  they' 
have  given  to  the  examination  all  that  care 
which  they  were  able  to,  and  which  Ihe  time 
from  the. adjournment  of  the  Convention  this 
forenoon  would  allow,  and  they  have  instructed 
me  almost  unanimously,  with  a  solitary  vote  as 
an  exception,  to  report  that  Texas  be  allowed 
six  votes  in  this  Convention.  [Tremendous  ap- 
plause and  cries  of  "goo_d,"  "good."]  It  was 
proved  before  the  committee  that  the  Conven- 
tion which  elected  the  delegates  from  Texas — 
resident  delegates  who  are  here  in  attendance, 
wae  a  mass  Convention  ;  that  it  was  called  upon 
a  petition  signed  by  some  three  hundred  of  the 
legal  voters  of  Texas.  [Applause.]  That  that 
call  was  published  in  some  two  of  the  German 
papers  published  in  the  State ;  that  written  no- 
tices and  advertisements  were  posted  up  in  va- 
rious parts  of  Texas,  where  there  is  any  num- 
ber of  people  in  favor  of  the  principles  of  the 
Republican  party,  and  the  committee  were  al- 
most unanimously  of  the  opinion  that  these  del- 
egates, elected  under  these  circumstances,  were 
fairly  entitled  to  act  as  the  representatives  of 
the  Republican  party  of  the  State  of  Texas. 
[Prolonged  applause.] 

The  question  being  on  the  adoption  of  the 
report,  it  was  adopted  unanimously  amid  great 
cheering. 

Mr.  CORWINE  (of  Ohio,    and    Chairman 
of  the  Committee  on  Rules  and  the  Order  of 
Business)  moved  to  take  from  the  table  the  re- 
port of  that  Committee. 
The  motion  was  carried. 
Mr.  CO  R  WIN  E  proceeded  to  read  the  rules  re- 
ported  by  the  Committee,  as  follows : 

1st.  That  upon  all  subjects  before  the  Con- 
vention, the  .states  and  Territories  shall  be 
called  in  the  following  order  : 

Ma'ne  NewHampshtre,  Vermont,  Massachusetts,  Rhode 
Island.  Connecticut,  New  York,  New  Jer  ey,  Pennsylvania, 
Maryland,  Delaware,  Virginia,  Kentucky,  Ohio.  Indiana, 
Mis  ouri,  M  chigan,  Illinois,  Texas,  Wisconsin,  Iowa,  Cal- 
ifornia, Minnesota,  Oregon. 
TEEB-.TOBIIS.— Kansas,  Nebraska.  Dist.  ofxColumbia. 

On  motion  the  first  rul»  was  adopted. 

2.  Four  votes  shall  be  cast  by  the  delegates 
at  large  of  each  State,  and  each  Congressional 
District  shall  be  entitled  to  two  votes,  and  the 
vote  of  each  delegation  shall  be  reported  by  its 
chairman. 

Mr.  GOODRICH,  of  Minnesota,  moved  as  an 
amendment,  that  no  delegation  should  cast  a 
greater  number  of  votes  than  there  were  dele- 
gates in  attendance. 

Mr.  SARGENT,  of  California— It  seems  to 
me  that  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Creden- 
tials just  adopted,  and  which  prescribes  the  ba- 
sis of  representation  in  this  Convention,  is  in 
conflict  with  the  rule  now  proposed  to  be  adopt- 
ed. This  rule  provides  that  two  votes  shall  be 
cast  from  each  Congressional  district.  Now, 
with  reference  to  Texas  and  certain  other 
States,  the  rule  has  been  changed.  We  have 
adopted  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Creden- 


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tials,  •which  provides  that  Texas  shall  have  less 
votes  than  are  accorded  to  1  er  by  this  rule. 

Mr.  CORWIXE— I  think  the  gentleman  is 
mistaken  in  regard  to  the  character  of  the  re- 
port of  the  Committee  on  Credentials.  They 
simply  report,  I  think,  the  number  of  represent- 
atives in  attendance. 

Mr.  SARGENT— The  report  fixes  the  num- 
ber of  votes  to  be  cast  by  each  Congressional 
District  in  the  Convention.  I  move,  a  further 
amendment  by  adding  these  words,  "provided 
that  this  rule  shall  not  conflict  with  any  rule 
reports ti  by  the  Committee  on  Credentials  and 
adopted  by  the  Convention." 

Mr.  GOODRICH  accepted  the  amendment  of 
"Mr.  Sargent,  and  the  amendment  ot  Mr.  Good- 
rich was  adopted. 

The  rule  as  amended  was  then  adopted. 

3.  The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Platform 
and  Resolutions  shall  be  acted  upon  before  the 
Convention  proceeds  to  ballot  tor  candidates 
for  President  and  Vice  President. 

On  motion  the  rule  was  adopted. 

4:  Three  hundred  and  four  votes  being  a 
majority  of  the  whole  nunber  of  votes  when  all 
the  States  in  the  Union  are  represented  in  con- 
vention according  to  the  rates  of  representa- 
tion prescribed  in  Rule  2.  shall  be  required  to 
nominate  the  candidates  of  this  convention  for 
the  offices  of  President  and  Vice  President  IJjJ 

VOICES— No,  no! 

The  PRESIDENT— The  Secretary  will  now 
read  the  minority  rule  proposed  as  a  substi- 
tute for  that  reported  by  the  majority  of  the 
Committee. 

4.  That  the  majority  of  the  whole  number  of 
votes  represented  in  this  Convention,  according 
to  the  ratio  prescribed  by  the  Indiana  rule, 
shall  be  required  to  nomina'e  candidates  for 
President  and  Vice  Preside! t. 

The  PRESIDENT  assigntd  the  floor  to  Mr. 
Kelly. 

Mr.  KELLY,  of  Pennsylvania— [Taking  the 
stand]. 

Mr.  JAMES,  of  New  York— Am  I  not  entitled 
to  the  floor,  having  offered  the  minority  report  / 

The  CHAIR— The  Chair  thinks  the  majority 
have  a  right  to  the  floor  first ;  but  it  is  a  ques- 
tion of  courtesy. 

Mr.  KELLY — As  I  appear,  Mr.  Chairman,  at 
the  request  of  a  majority  of  the  Committee,  sim- 
ply to  state  the  views  which  governed  that  Com- 
mittee in  arriving  at  the  conclusion  they  pre- 
sent, I  will  cheerfully  yield  the  floor  to  the  gen- 
tleman, and  will  present  those  views  after  we 
shall  have  heard  him.  [Loud  cries  of  "Go  on," 
"  go  on."J 

The  CHAIR — It  is  entirely  a  question  of 
courtesy. 

Mr.  KELLY — The  subject  which  now  en- 
gages the  attention  of  the  Convention,  was  one 
of  deep  consideration  to  the  Commttee.  It 
seemed  to  them  to  be  the  most  important  ques- 
tion that  came  within  the  range  of  their  duties. 
It  is  an  important  question  for  this  Conven- 
tion to  decide,  what  vote  shall  nominate  the 
candidates  to  be  supported  for  President  and 
Vice  President  ?  In  the  first  place,  Mr.  Chair- 
man, the  committee  asked  what  oody  had  ap- 
pointed them  to  report  vpon  that  question  ? 
and  the  answer  was  that  the  National  Republi- 
can Convention  had  appointed  them,  and  that 
the  the  candidates  were  ti  be  the  candidates  of 
the  National  Republican  party.  [Great  cheers] ; 
and,  consequently,  that  the  number  of  votes 
upon  which  a  man  should  be  nominated  should 
be  a  majority  of  the  electoral  college — no  mor<! 
and  no  less  [applause] ;  so  that,  if  the  charge 
were  made  agaiust  the  party  or  its  cuuuiuute 


that  they  were  the  candidates  of  a  section,  or  a 
sectional  party,  they  had  been  nominated  by 
delegates  representing  a  majority  of  the  elect- 
oral college  ;  by  the  iame  vote  that,  in  a  Con- 
vention where  the  majority  rule,  and  where  tl«e 
section  sat  in  person  through  its  representa- 
tives, would  have  nominated  a  candidate.  It  is 
siu>p!y  a  majority  rule  as  applied  to  the  electo- 
ral college. 

We  looked  at  the  call  of  the  Convention,  and 
we  found  that  it  invited  not  only  the  people  of 
the  Northern  States — not  only  the  people  of  the 
border  slave  {States— but  the  people  of  the 
United  States ;  and  if  any  State  is  not  repre- 
sented, whether  it  be  by  accident  or  design,  we 
count  her  as  here.  We  do  not  cast  her  vote, 
but  we  count  her  as  present.  She  is  here  in 
spirit,  she  is  here  in  contemplation  of  the  call 
of  the  Convention ;  and  we  can  say  she  had 
her  rights  here,  if  we  can  say  that  our  candi- 
dates were  nominated  by  a  vote  they  would  have 
had  badshe  and  her  sisters  been  here  looking 
to  their  duties.  This  was  the  first  view  that 
controlled  a  majority  of  the  Committee — that  a 
precedent  might  be  set  here,  and  now,  that  to 
nominate  a  Republican  candidate,  should  re- 
quire a  delegate  for  every  elector  that  it  would 
take  to  give  him  a  bare  majority  in  the  electoral 
college. 

Having  passed  that  cardinal  point,  minor,  but 
very  weighty  and  important  considerations  add- 
ed themselves  to  these.  A  question  was  raised 
before  the  Committee,  when  we  came  to  fix  the 
order  in  which  States  should  be  called.  When  they 
had  named  the  States,  Kansas  was  not  among 
them.  A  delegate  from  Nebraska  was  present, 
and  a  list  of  members  handed  us  by  the  Secre- 
tary of  the  Convention  contained  not  only  the 
names  of  the  States,  but  Kansas  and  Nebraska 
and  the  District  of  Columbia.  So  far  as  sending 
that  list  was  concerned,  this  Convention  had 
told  us  that  the  States  were  to  be  represented — 
that  Kansas  was  to  be  represented — that  i>e- 
braska  and  the  District  of  Columbia  were  to  be 
represented — as  they  were  constituted  States, 
and  had  an  electoral  power  behind  them.  We 
knew,  Mr.  Chairman,  that  there  were  a  few  gal- 
lant men— brave  spirits — honored  throughout 
our  country — honored  wherever  courage  com- 
mands honor  —  here  from  Maryland,  from 
Virginia,  and  from  Kentucky.  We  knew  that 
these  men  were  here  to  testify  to  their  man- 
hood, their  appreciation  of  their  rights  under 
the  Constitution,  and  to  proclaim  to  the  men  of 
the  North  that  they  were  Americans,  who,  un- 
der a  despotism  more  dreadful,  and  grasping 
and  audacious  than  that  of  Naples,  Austria  or 
Russia — Americans,  who,  under  such  a  despot- 
ism—  [A  Voice — "Time!"] — would  take  their 
lives  in  their  hands  and  would  go  forth  to 
say  "  We  are  freemen,  and  will  unite  with 
the  freemen  of  this  f country  in  restoring  the 
the  Government  to  the  line  of  the  fathers." 
And  we  supposed  that  these  men  would  all  be 
admitted  to  this  Convention  as  though  they 
carried  with  them  the  full  electoral  vote  of  their 
States  respectively  at  their  back 

Now,  Mr.  Chairman,  u  occurred  to  your  Com- 
mitte  that  it  might  so  fall  out,  in  view  of  the 
admission  of  Kansas  here,  and  permit  me  to 
say  that  the  humble  individual  who  now  ad- 
dresses you  as  tae  organ  of  that  Committee, 
when  it  was  proposed  to  exclude  from  our  list 
that  Territory  and  the  District  of  Columbia,took 
the  ground  that  Kansas  was  a  State  on  the  very 
ground  taken  by  the  eloquent  gentleman  from 
Maine,  that  equity  holds  that  to  have  been 
which  ought  to  have  been.  For  three  years  she 
has  been  in  power  and  in  right  a  State,  and  if 


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these  delegates  are  not  representing  a  State  it 
is  by  no  reason  of  theirs  or  their  constituents, 
but  by  reason  of  the  oppression  and  lawlessness 
of  the  United  States  Senate.  Therefore 
we  hold  it  right  that  she  should  be 
here.  But  there  was  not  the  same  ground 
for  Nebraska,  fa  voice,  "How  about  Oregon?"] 
Now  we  saw  that  unless  this  rule  was  adopted 
it  might  so  happen  that  our  candidate  would  ba 
nominated  by  less  than  a  majority  of  this  Con- 
vention. [Cries  of  "  Question."]  I  am  draw- 
ing to  a  close.  Mr.  Chairman,  I  am  not  herein 
defence  of  the  rule  proposed,  persor  ally.  I  am 
here  at  the  request  of  the  Committee  to  pre- 
sent the  rules  they  instructed  me  to  present. 
When  I  have  done  that  as  briefly  as  I  can,  I 
will  retire.  [Voices — "  All  right,  go  on."]  Per- 
ceiving that  it  was  possible  under  the  list  of 
delegates  to  be  admitted,  that  a  candi- 
data  might  be  nominated  who  should  not  have 
a  majority  of  the  electors  who  represent  the 
States  and  Congressional  Districts,  there 
seemed  to  be  additional  reason  why  the  rule,  in 
itself  so  equitable,  that  a  majority  of  the  whole 
electoral  college  should  fix  tbe  number  of  votes 
required  and  they  determined  to  submit  it  to 
the  Convention.  [A  VOICE — "  What  about 
Oregon  ?]  Oregon  is  a  constituted  State  and 
there  was  no  question  about  Oregon.  I  am 
holding  no  dispute  about  her.  The  matter  is 
now  before  the  Convention  with  the  reasons 
that  governed  the  Committee ;  and  having  done 
my  duty  I  will  give  way,  as  I  was  ready  to  do 
before  I  began.  [Applause.] 

Mr.  JAMES,  of  New  York— As  the  Chairman 
of  the  minority  of  the  Committee  which  pre- 
sented the  minority  report,  I  arise  for  the  pur- 
pose of  giving  the  reasons  why  we  saw  fit  to 
present  a  minority  report  against  that  present- 
ed by  the  majority  and  I  don't  propose  to  enter- 
tain you  with  any  particular  eloquence,  but  to 
state  simply  the  reason.  By  the  vote  which 
has  already  passed  this  Convention,  as  to  the 
number  of  delegates  represented  upon  this 
floor,  if  I  understoi  d  the  Committee  aright 
there  are  44*5  voting  delegates  upon  the  floor — 

SECRETARY— The  number  if  466. 

Mr.  JAMES— Then  there  is  a  mistake.  One 
of  the  Secretaries  informs  me  that  it  is  466.  I 
took  the  list  from  a  reporter  who  took  It  from 
the  calling  off  of  the  Chairman  of  the  Conven- 
tion, and  we  made  it  different.  We  will  call  it 
the  largest  number,  then,  466.  That  was  tho't 
to  be  the  number  when  this  question  arose  in 
the  Committee,  the  report  of  which  is  now  pre- 
sented. There  were  but  17  members  of  that 
Committee  present,  10  being  absent,  and  upon 
the  sense  of  that  body  being  called, they, stood 
nine  to  eight — nine  for  the  majority  and  eight 
against  it.  You  will  thus  see  the  difference  be- 
tween the  two  reports.  Ooe  is  substantially 
the  "  two-thirds  rule."  If  there  are  466  votes, 
311,  I  believe,  is  two-thirds  of  that  vote,  and 
this  ru'e  requires  304.  Therefore  it  is  only 
seven  short  of  the  two-thirds  ru!e  which  has 
been  adopted  by  the  Democratic  party  in  the 
management  of  their  Conventions.  I  am  not 
aware  that  any  such  rule  was  ever  adopted  by 
any  party  in  opposition  to  that  party,  and  I  was 
not  aware  that  that  party  ever  adopted  that 
rule  until  1836,  and  again  in  1844,  when  it  be- 
came necessary  for  the  interest  and  purposes  of 
Slavery  that  the  minority  should  rule  the  ma- 
jority. For  that  reason  I  am  opposed  to  that 
rule.  [A  VOICE— "That  is  right."]  I  have 
sufficient  confidence  in  the  integrity  and  judg- 
ment of  t  .is  Convention  to  trustlhe  nomination 
of  its  candidate  to  the  majority  of  the  delegates 
here.  If  the  minority  report  is  adopted,  instead 


of  a  two-thirds  rule,  the  result  will  be  left  to 
the  wisdom  and  patriotism  of  a  majority  of  the 
Convention. 

[Cries  of  ''  Question." 

Mr.  MANN  ofJjPennsylvaia—  Mr.  President. 

The  PRESIDENT—  I  will  read. 

Mr.  MANN  —  I  should  like  to  understand  if  I 
am  out  of  order  in  addressing  the  chair  as  other 
men  do? 

The  PRESIDENT—  I  was  about  to  read  the 
rule  reported  by  the  majority  and  then  that  re- 
ported by  the  minority,  and  straighten  the  Con- 
vention as  to  the  question  upon  which  a  vote  is 
to  be  had.  But  I  will  hear  the  gentleman  be- 
fore I  do  so  if  he  insists  upon  it. 

Mr.  MANN  —  I  desire  to  call  the  attention  of 
this  Convention  to  this  new  rule  introduced 
here  I  come  here  from  a  land  where  we  acqui- 
esce in  the  will  of  the  majority  [applause]  on 
all  questions  whenever  men  are  invi*ed  together 
to  deliberate.  I  know  nowhere  in  a  Republican 
Convention  where  men  are  entitled  to  vote  by 
proxy.  I  do  conceive  that  to  adopt  any  such 
rule  here  would  be  distinctive  of  its  character  ; 
it  would  be  considered  ^  s  to  be  aimed  at  the  as- 
pirations of  an  individual,  and  if  an  individual 
cannot  be  struck  down  in  this  broad  country 
without  doing  a  wrong,  I  should  be  the  last  on 
God's  earth  to  do  it.  These  are  my  sentiments, 
and  the  sentiments  of  the  true,  loyal  hearts 
around  me  in  Pennsylvania,  [applause,]  and 
when  I  barely  announce  them  I  shall  trouble 
this  Convention  no  further. 

The  CHAIR  (Cleveland)  stated  the  motion. 
The  roll  was  called,  with  the  following  result: 

No.       States.  Tes.         Be. 

Indiana.  .........  35  i 

Missouri  ..........          18 

Michigan....;...  12 

3  Jll.noig  ..........  7 

4  Texas  ...........  6 

4       Wisconsin  ......  10 

Iowa  ............  6  S 

1       California  .......  8 

20>i    Mlonesota  ......  8 

6       Orfgon  ..........  S  1 

Territories. 
Kansas  .........  6          .. 

Nebraska  ........  « 

Dist.Columtia..  2 


States  Yes. 

Maine 16 

New  Hampshire  10 

Vermont 10 

Massachusetts... 22 
Rhode  Island. . .  4 

Connecticut 8 

Ne  v  vork 70 

New  Jersey 12 

Ptnnsylvania..  .33}£ 

Maryland 5 

I>elbware 6 

Virginia 13 

Kentucky 10 

Ohio 82 


8 


9 


Total 868K       S4X 

So  the  majority  report  was  amended  by  the 
substitution  of  the  minority  report. 

While  the  vote  was  taking,  Pennslyvania 
having  been  called  three  times, 

Mr.  GOODRICH,  of  Minnesota— I  move  that 
the  representatives  of  the  People's  party  of 
Pennsylvania  be  excused  from  voting  upon 
their  own  proposition.  [Hisses  and  confu- 
sion.] 

Mr.  REEDER— Is  it  in  ordec  for  the  State  of 
Pennsylvania  to  vote? 

The  PRESIDENT— If  she  has  not  voted,  it  is. 

Mr.  REEDER — Pennsylvania  could  not  vote 
without  retiring  to  another  roo"a  to  consult  her 
large  delegation.  Did  I  understand  a  gentle- 
man just  now  to  intimate  that  Pennsylvania 
was  not  entitled  to  a  vote  upon  this  floor?  If 
he  did,  I  should  be  glad  to  know  who  he  is, 
and  where  he  comes  from.  [Immense  appiause 
and  cries  of"  Goodrich."] 

Mr.  GOODRICH.  I  rise  Mr.  President- [cries 
of  "  sit  down,"  and  hisses].  I  will. 

The  PRE3I D  ENT.  Gentlemen  do  not  forget 
yourselves.  You  must  keep  order. 

Mr.  GOODRICH.  Mr.  Pre?ident-(cries  of 
"  sit  down"  and  hisses.)  I  will  not  sit  down, 
(confusion.) 

The  PRESIDENT.  The  gentleman  upon  my 
right  is  desirous  of  explaining  to  the  gentle- 
man from  Pennsylvania  so  that  there  may  be 


DO  ill  blood  in  the  Convention,  even  for  a  mo- 
ment. Will  you  allow  him  to  do  it.  Let  us  act, 
gentlemen,  in  a  friendly  spirit,  and  if  men  make 
remarks  that  are  not  exactly  correct,  let  them 
be  forgotten  on  the  moment.  I  would  say  to 
the  gentleman  from  Pennsylvania  that  the  ex- 
pression was  promptly  rebuked  by  the  chair. 

Mr.  GOODRICH— I  wish  to  state  to  the  gen- 
tleman who  desired  to  know  who  it  was  that 
had  suggested  that  Pennsylvania  had  not  a 
right  to  vote  here,  I  propDse  to  respond  to  that 
interrogatory.  I  made  no  such  remark. 
[Cheers,  and  cries  of  "  order."]  When  the 
roll  was  called,  Pennsylvania  was  called  for  a 
third  time,  when  a  gentleman  answered,  who  I 
supposed  was  speaking  authoritatively  for  Penn- 
sylvania, that  she  abandoned  her  proposition, 
the  majority  report,  and  then,  as  an  act  of  hu- 
manity, I  moved  that  she  be  excused  from  ex 
pressing  her  opinion.  (Laughter,  and  cnes  of 
"  sit  down."] 

The  report  as  amended  was  then  adopted 
uem.  con. 

THE  REPUBLICAN  PLATFORM. 

The  PRESIDENT— The  Chair  is  informed 
that  the  Committee  on  Resolutions  and  Platform 
is  ready  to  report.  [Immense  Applause.] 

Mr.  JESSDP,  of  Pennsylvania.  The  Com- 
mittee on  Platform  and  Resolutions  have  di- 
rected me  to  say  to  the  Convention  that  these 
resolutions  have  been  adopted  with  great  unan 
imity,  there  being  upon  one  or  two  of  the  reso- 
lutions some  dissenting  voices  on  the  Commit- 
tee. The  greater  portion  of  the  resolutions 
were  adopted  with  entire  unanimity  in  the  Com- 
mittee. 

The  Platform. 

[A3  AMENDED    AND    ADOPTED.] 

Resolved,  That  we,  the  delegated  representa- 
tives of  the  Republican  electors  of  the  United 
States,  in  Convention  assembled,  in  discharge 
of  the  duty  we  owe  to  our  constituents  and  our 
country,  unite  in  the  following  declarations : 

1.  That  the  history  of  the  nation  during  the 
las_t  four  years,  has  fully  established  the  pro- 
priety and  necessity  of  the  organization  and 
perpetuation    of    the  Republican   party,    and 
that  the  causes  which  called  it  into  existence 
are  permanent  in  their  nature,  and  now,  more 
than  ever  before,  demand  its  peaceful  and  con- 
stitutional triumph. 

2.  That   the   maintenance  of  the  principles 
promulgated  in  the  Declaration  of  Independ- 
ence and  embodied  in  the  Federal  Constitution, 
"  That  all  men  are  created  equal ;  that  they  are 
endowed  by  their  Creator  with  certain  iaalhena- 
ble  rights  ;  that  "among  these  are  life,  liberty 
and    the     pursuit     of  happiness;     that     to 
secure      these      rights,      governments      are 
instituted    among    men,    deriving   their  just 
powers  from  the  consent  of  the  governed" # 
is  essential  to  the  preservation  of  our  Republi- 
can institutions;  and  that  the  Federal  Constitu- 
tion, the  Rights  of  the  States,  and  the  Union 
of  the  States  must  and  shall  be  preserved. 

3.  That  to  the  Union  of  the  States  this  nation 
owes  its  unprecedented  increase  in  population, 
its    surprising    development    of    material   re- 
sources, its  rapid  augmentation  of  wealth,  its 
happiness  at  home  and  its  honor  abroad ;  and 
we  hold  in  abhorrence  all  schemes  for  Disunion, 
come  from  whatever  source  they  may  :  And  we 
congratulate  the  country  that  no  Republican 
member  of  Congress  has  uttered  or  counte- 
nanced the  threats  of  Disunion  so  often  made 
by  Democratic  members,  without  rebuke  and 


with  applause  from  their  political  associates  ; 
and  we  denounce  those  threats  of  disunion,  iu 
case  of  a  popular  overthrow  of  their  ascend- 
ancy as  denying  the  vital  principles  of  a  free 
government,  and  as  an  avowal  of  contemplated 
treason,  which  it  is  the  imperative  duty  of  an 
indignant  People  sternly  to  rebuke  and  forever 
silence. 

4.  That   the  maintenance   inviolate   of  the 
rights  of  the  States,  and  especially  the  right  of 
each  State  to  order  and  control  its  own  domes- 
tic institutions  according  to  its  own  judgment 
exclusively,    is  essential  to  that    balance    of 
powers  on  which  the  perfection  and  endurance 
of  our  political  fabric    depends  ;  and  we   de- 
nounce the  lawless  invasion  by  armed  force  of 
the  soil  of  any  State   or  Territory,  no  matter 
under  what  pretext,  as  among  the  gravest  of 
crimes. 

5.  That  the  present    Democratic  Adminis- 
tration has  far  exceeded  our  worst  apprehen- 
sions, in  its  measureless  subserviency  to  the 
exactions  of  a  sectional  interest,  as  especially 
evinced  in  its  desperate  exertions  to  force  the 
infamous  Lecompton  Constitution  upon  the  pro- 
testing people  of  Kansas ;  in  construing  the 
personal  relation  between  master  and  servant 
to  involve  an  unqualified  property  in  persons  ; 
in  its  attempted  enforcement,  everywhere,  on 
land  and  sea,  through  the  intervention  of  Con- 
gress and  of  the  Federal  Courts  ot  the  extreme 
pretensions  of  a  purely  local  interest;  and  in 
its  general  and  unvarying  abuse  of  the  power 
entrusted  to  it  by  a  confiding  people. 

6.  That  the  people  justly  view  with  alarm 
the  reckless  extravagance  which  pervades  every 
department  of  the  Federal  Government;  that  a 
return  to  rigid  economy  and  accountability  is 
indispensable  to  arrest  the  systematic  plunder 
of  the  public  trea-ury    by  favored  partisans ; 
while   the  recent    startling    developments    of 
frauds  and  corruptions  at,  the  Federal  metropo- 
lis, show  that  an  entire  change  of  administra- 
tion is  imperatively  demanded. 

7.  That  the  new  dogma  that  the  Constitu- 
tion, of  its  own  force,  carries  Slavery  into  any 
or  all  of  the  Territories  of  the  United  States,  is 
a  dangerous  political  heresy,  at  variance  with 
the  explicit  provisions  of  that  instrument  itself, 
with  cotemporaneous  exposition,  and  with  leg- 
islative and  judicial  precedent;  isrevolutionary 
in  its  tendency,  and  subversive  of  the  peace  and 
harmony  ot  the  country. 

8.  That  the  normal  condition  of  all  the  terri- 
tory of  the  United  States  is  that  of  freedom : 
That  as  our  Republican  fathers,  when  they  had 
abolished  slavery  in  all  our  national  territory, 
ordained  that  "  no  person  should  be  deprived  of 
life,  liberty,  or  property,  without  due  process  of 
law,"  it  becomes  v.ur  duty,  by  legislation,  when- 
ever such  legislation  is  necessary,  to  maintain 
this  provision  of  the  Constitution  against  all  at- 
tempts to  violate  it;  and  we  deny  The  authority 
of  Congress,  of  a  territorial  legislature,  or  of 
any  individuals,  to  give  legal  existence  to  slave- 
ry in  any  Territory  of  the  United  States. 

9.  That  we  brand  the  recent  re-opening  of 
the  African  slave  trade,  under  tha  cover  of  our 
national  flag,  aided  by  perversions  of  judicial 
power,  as  a  crime  against  humanity  and  a  burn- 
ing shame  to  our  country  and  age;  and  we  call 
upon  Congress  to  take  prompt  and  efficient 
measures  for  the  total  and  final  suppression  of 
that  execrable  traffic. 

10.  That  in  the  recent  vetoes,  by  their  Fede- 
ral Governors,  of  the  acts  ot  the  Legislatures  of 
Kansas  and  Nebraska,  prohibiting  Slavery  in 
those  Territories,  we  find  a  practical  illustration 
of  the  boasted  Democratic  principle  of  Non  In- 


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tervenfion  and  Popular  Sovereignty  embodied 
in  the  Kansas-Nebraska  bill,  and  a  demonstra- 
tion of  the  deception  and  fraud  involved 
therein. 

11.  That  Kansas  should,  of  right,  be  immed  i 
iately  admitted  as  a  State  under  the  Con-titu-  ] 
tion  recently  formed  and  adopted  by  her  people,  , 
and  accepted  by  the  House  of  Representative*,    j 

12.  That,  while  providing  revenue  for  the 
support  of  the  general  government  by  duties 
upon   imports,  sound  policy  requires  such  an 
adjustment  of  these  imposts  as  to  encourage  the 
development  of  the  industrial  interests  of  the 
whole   couitry;  and  we  commend  that  policy 
of  national  exchanges,  which  secures  to  the 
working  men  liberal  wages,  to  agriculture  re- 
munerating prices,  to  mechanics  and  manufac- 
turers an  adequate  reward  for  their  skill,  labor, 
and  enterprise,  and  to  the  nation  commercial 
prosperity  and  independence. 

13.  That  we  protest  against  any  sale  or  alien- 
ation to  others  of  the  Public  Lands  held  by 
actual  settlers,  and  against  any  view  of  the 
Free  Homestead  policy  which  regards  the  set 
tiers  as  paupers  or  suppliants  for  public  bounty; 
and  we  demand  the  passage  by  Congress  of  the 
complete  and  satisfactory  Homestead  measure 
which  has  already  passed  the  House. 

14.  That  the  Republican  party  is  op- 
posed to  any  change  in  our  Naturalization  Laws 
or  any  State  legislation  by  which  the  rights  of 
citizenship  hitherto  accorded  to  immigrants 
from  foreign  lands  shall  be  abridged  or  impair 
«d;  and  in  favor  of  giving  a  fu!  and  efficient 
protection  to  the  rights  of  all  classes  of  citizens, 
whether  native  or  naturalized,  both  at  home 
and  abroad. 

15.  That  appropriations  by  Congress  for  River 
and  Harbor  improvements  of  a  National  char- 
acter, required  for  the  accommodation  and  se- 
curity of  an  existing  commerce,  are  authorized 
by  the  Constitution,  and  justified  by  the  obli 
gation  of  Government  to  protect  the  lives  and 
property  of  its  citizens. 

Ifi.  That  a  Railroad  to  the  Pacific  Ocean  is 
imperatively  demanded  by  the  interests  of  the 
whole  country ;  that  the  Federal  Government 
ought  to  render  immediate  and  efficient  aid  in 
its  construction ;  and  that,  as  preliminary 
thereto,  a  daily  Overland  Mail  should  be  prompt- 
ly established. 

17.  Finally,  having  thus  set  forth  our  dis- 
tinctive principles  and  views,  we  invite  the  co 
operation  of  all  citizens,  however  differing  on 
other  questions,  who  substantially  agree  with 
us  in  their  affirmance  and  support. 

The  reading  of  the  sections  was  interrupted 
by  tremendous  bursts  of  applause— the  most 
enthusiastic  and  long-continued  being  given  to 
the  tariff  and  homestead  clauses. 

Mr.  CARTTER— Mr  Chairman:  That  report 
is  so  eminently  unquestionable  from  beginning 
to  end,  and  so  eloquently  carries  through  with 
it  its  own  vindication,  that  I  do  not  believe  the 
Convention  will  desire  discussion  upon  it,  and 
I  therefore  call  the  previous  question  upon  it. 
[Applause,  and  mingled  ciies  of  "good,  good," 
and  "  no,  no."J, 

Mr.  GIDD1NGS— I  arise,  sir,  solemnly  to  ap- 
peal to  my  friend — [great  confusion  ;  cries  of 
"  withdraw  tha  previous  question."  A  voice — 
"Nobody  wants  to  speak,  but  we  don't  want  to 
be  choked  off."  Ac.] 

Mr.  CARTTER— I  insist  upon  the  previous 
question. 

•  The  sentence  in  brackets  is  (he  amendment  offered  by 
Jlr.  Qiddings. 


Mr.  GIDDINGS— I  arise,  and  I  believe  I  have 
the  right,  with  the  leave  of  my  colleague,  to  of- 
fer a  short  amendment  oetore  the  previous 
que:tion  is  called. 

Mr.  CARTTER— I  did  it  to  cut  you  off,  and 
all  otber  amendments,  and  all  discussion. 
[Great  confusion,  and  cries  of  "  Giddings  "  by 
the  audience.] 

A  DELEGATE  at  the  soath  end  of  the  plat- 
form—The  resolutions  have  not  been  distrib- 
uted among  the  members  yet,  and  will  the  gen- 
tleman ask  us  to  vote  upon  a  party  platform  we 
have  not  seen  ? 

MR.  CARTTER— I  insist  npon  the  previous 
question.  They  can  read  it  by  copy.  It'a 
printed. 

MR.  GIDDINffS— Would  it  be  in  order  for 
me  to  say  that  I  request  my  friend  to  withdraw 
the  previous  question,  that  I  may  offer  aa 
amendment? 

A  DELEGATE  from  Maine— I  ri«e  to  a  point 
of  order.  Is  the  motion  of  the  gentleman  from 
Ohio  seconded?  ["  Yes,"  ''yes,  " ye?."] 

MR.  ANDREW,  of  Massachusetts— I  rise  to 
a  point  of  order.  The  motion  of  the  gentle- 
man from  Ohio  is  not  in  order,  for  the  reason 
that  this  Convention  have  already  passed  a  rule 
that  the  Committee  on  Platform  and  Resolu- 
tions shall  make  their  report  in  print,  and  that 
printed  report  has  not  been  received  by  this 
Convention. 

The  PRESIDENT— We  will  have  that  resolu- 
tion read. 

Mr.  CARTTER— There  is  no  such  rule. 

Tbe  PRESIDENT— Will  gentlemen  give  their 
attention  ?  The  Chair  will  state  the  position  of 
the  question.  The  Committee  on  Platform  and 
Resolutions  have  presented  a  report  which  has 
been  read  by  the  Chairman.  Upon  the  question 
of  acceptance  ot  that  report,  Mr.  Cartter  of 
Ohio,  demands  the  previous  question.  Pending 
that  demand,  Mr.  Andrew,  of  Massachusetts, 
raises  a  question  of  order,  that  it  is  not  in  order 
to  demand  the  previous  question,  because  the 
Convention  has  adopted  a  standing  rule  that 
before  acting  upon  that  report,  the  report 
should  be  printed  and  presented  to  the  Con- 
vention. Upon  examining  the  record,  the 
Chair  rules  that  there  is  no  such  thing. — 
It  was  an  independent  resolution,  made  by  Mr. 
Kauffmann,  of  Pennsylvania. 

[Much  confusion  was  here  caused  by  the  anx- 
iety of  delegates  and  the  crowd  in  the  wigwam 
to  obtain  copies  of  the  platform,  which  by  this 
time  had  been  brought  into  the  Hall  and  was 
being  distributed.] 

The  PRESIDENT— The  question  is  on  the  de- 
mand of  Mr.  Cartter  for  the  previous  question. 
Mr.  TRACY  of  California— I  hope,  as  a 
member  of  the  Committee  on  Resolutions  and 
Platform,  and  as  one  of  the  sub-committee  that 
drafted  these  resolutions,  that  the  previous 
question  will  Dot  be  sustained. 

The  PRESIDENT— It  is  not  a  debateable 
question. 

Mr.  TRACY— I  know  it  is  not  debateable. 
I  only  expressed  a  hope. 

Mr.  GIDDINGS— I  desire  my  colleague  to 
withdraw  the  call  for  the  previous  question. 

Mr.  CARTTER— It  has  got  to  be  voted  down 
or  it  has  to  be  voted  up. 

The  PRESIDENT— The  question  is,  is  there  a 
second  for  th«s  call  of  the  previous  question? 

VOICES -Yes. 

Motion  submitted  and  declared  to  be  lost. 

Mr.  CARTTER— I  call  for  a  division  on  that 
question  and  a  vote  by  States. 

The  PRESIDENT— It  was  voted  down  three 
to  one. 


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Mr.  CARTTER— I  don't  understand  it  so.  I 
call  for  a  division. 

A  DELEGATE— I  rise  to  a  point  of  order.  It 
is  too  late  ti  call  for  a  division  after  the  ques- 
tion is  decided. 

Mr.  CARTTER— It  is  not.  You  can't  call  for 
it  before. 

The  PRESIDENT  then  submitted  the  ques- 
tion. The  roll  of  States  was  called  with  the  fol- 
lowing result: 


Maine  

1 

14 

Missouri  

18 

10 

Michigan  

8 

4 

10 

Illinois  

14 

8 

4 

21 

Texas  

6 

Rhode  Island.  . 

8 

Wisconsin  ...  . 

8 

2 

1 

11 

Iowa  

.    2 

6 

NewYO'k  

•>f> 

45 

California  

8 

I9* 

U 

8 

58} 

Oregon  

2 

2 

11 

Territories. 

4 

2 

( 

17 

6 

Nebraska  

2 

4 

Kentucky  
Ohio  
Total  

10 
28 

10 
18 

Dist.  Columb'a. 

in* 

2 

301 

California  being  called — 

Mr.  TRACY  — California  believes  in  free 
speech  and  free  men,  and  votes  eight  against 
the  previous  question. 

Ohio  being  called — 

Mr.  CARTTER— Coming  from  Ohio,  a  State 
where  free  speech  is  not  allowed,  she  votes  28 
ayes  and  18  nays. 

The  PRESIDENT  announced  the  previous 
question  not  sustained.  [Great  applause.] 

AMENDMENTS   PROPOSED. 

Mr.  GIDDINGS  of  Ohio  took  tae  floor. 

Mr.  REEDBR— I  ask  the  gentleman  if  he 
will  give  way  while  we  take  up  these  resolu- 
tions singly? 

VOICES— No,  no. 

Mr.  GIDDINGS— Mr.  President,  I  propose  to 
offer,  after  the  first  resolution  as  it  stands  here, 
as  a  declaration  of  principles,  the  following: 

"That  we  solemnly  reassert  the  self-evident 
truths  that  all  men  are  endowed  by  their  Creator 
with  certain  inalienable  rights,  among  which 
are  those  of  life,  liberty  and  the  pursuit  of 
happiness  [cheers] ;  that  governments  are  in- 
stituted among  men  to  secure  the  enjoyment  of 
these  rights." 

Mr.  CARTTER.  of  Ohio,  interrupting— Mr. 
President,  I — 

Mr.  GIDDINGS— My  collegue  will  ask  no  fa- 
vors of  me,  I  take  it.  [Applause.]  I  .vill  de- 
tain Ihe  Convention  but  a  moment.  Two  hun- 
dred years  ago  the  philosophers  of  Europe  de- 
clarea  to  the  world  that  human  governments 
were  based  npon  human  rights,  arid  all  Chris 
tian  writers  have  sustained  that  doctrine  until 
the  members  of  this  Convention.  Our  Fathers, 
impressed  with  this  all  permeating  truth, — 
the  right  of  every  human  being  to 
live  and  enjoy  that  liberty,  which 
enables  him  to  obtain  knowledge  and  pursue 
happiness,  and  no  man  has  the  power  to  with- 
hold it  from  him.  (Prolonged  cheerg.)  Our 
fathers  embraced  this  solemn  truth,!aid  it  down 
as  the  chief  corner  stone,  the  basis  upon  which 
this  Federal  Government  was  founded.  By 
consent  of  all  parties,  the  Supreme  Court  in- 
cluded, these  were  the  primitive,  life-giving 
vitalizing  principles  of  the  Constitution.  It  is 
because  these  principles  have  been  overturned, 
uprooted  and  destroyed  by  our  opponents,  that 
we  now  exist  as  a  party  (cheers)  At  Philadelphia. 
we  prepared  and  propounded  this  isaue  to 
our  opponents.  \Ve  called  on  them  to  meet  it. 
They  have  not  met  it.  They  put  forward  the 
Supreme  Court  to  meet  it.  That  court  denied 
those  principles,  but  the  Democratic  party  to 


this  day  dare  not  deny  them  ;  and  through  the 
campaign,  and  for  four  years,  no  Democrat  has 
stood  before  the  world  denying  that  troth,  nor 
will  they  deny  them.  Now,  I  propose  to  main- 
tain the  doctrines  of  our  fathers.  I  propose  to 
maintain  the  fundamental  and  primal  issues  up- 
on which  the  government  was  founded.  I  will 
detain  this  Convention  no  longer.  I  offer  this 
because  our  party  was  formed  upon  it.  It  grew 
upon  it.  It  has  existed  upon  it— and  when  you 
leave  out  this  truth  you  leave  out  the  party. 
[Loud  cheers  ] 

MR.  CARTTER— I  call  for  the  reading  of  clause 
No.  2  in  the  report  of  the  Committee. 

MR.  LOWRY  of  Pennsylvania— I  rise  to  a 
question  of  order.  We  have  upon  our  journal 
a  resolution  that  all  questions  that  come  up  by 
resolution,  should  be  referred  to  the  Committee 
appointed  for  that  purpose,  without  debate.  I 
therefore  call  upon  the  President  of  this  Con- 
vention now  to  enforce  the  rule. 

The  PRESIDENT— The  Chair  is  of  the  opin- 
ion that  this  proposition  does  not  come  within 
the  principle  of  the  rule  that  the  gentleman 
alludes  to. 

MR.  LOWRY— Then  Mr.  President • 

MR.  CARTTER— I  wish  simply  to  read  in 
reply  to  this 

MR.  LOWRY— Well,  Mr.  President,  I  move 
that  the  report  of  the  Committee  as  prepared 
and  presented  be  adopted. 

The  PRESIDENT— The  gentleman  is  out  of 
order.  He  has  not  got  the  floor. 

MR.  CARTTER— i  he  only  reply  I  wish  to 
make  on  this  amendment  and  the  gas  expended 
on  it,  is  in  clause  2  of  the  report~which  reads 
as  follows : — "that  the  maintenance  of  the  prin- 
ciples promulgated  in  the  Declaration  of  Inde- 
pendence and  embodied  in  the  Federal  Consti- 
tution, is  essential  to  the  preservation  of  our 
republican  institutions ;  and  that  the  Federal 
Constitution,  the  rights  of  the  States,  and  the 
union  of  the  States,  must  and  shall  be  pre- 
served." 

Mr.  THAYER,  of  Oregon— I  agree  with  the 
venerable  delegate  from  Ohio  (Giddings)  in  all 
that  he  has  affirmed  to  this  Convention  concern- 
ing the  privileges  of  the  Declaration  of  Inde- 
pendence. There  are  also  many  otter  truths 
than  are  enunciated  in  that  Declaration  of  Inde- 
pendence— truths  of  science,  truths  of  physical 
science,  truths  of  government,  and  great  reli- 
gious truths;  but  it  is  not  the  business,  I  think, 
of  this  Convention,  at  least  it  is  not  the  pur- 
pose of  this  party,  to  embrace  in  its  platform 
all  the  truths  that  the  world  in  all  its  past  his- 
tory has  recognized.  [Applause.]  Mr.  Presi- 
dent, I  believe  in  the  ten  commandments,  but  I 
do  not  want  them  in  a  political  platform. 

Mr.  TRACY— I  move  that  the  resolution  be 
referred  to  the  Committee  on  Resolutions  and 
Platform. 

The  PRESIDENT— The  motion  is  out  of 
order. 

A  DELEGATE  from  Connecticut— I  move 
that  the  amendment  offered  by  the  gentleman 
from  Ohio  be  laid  upon  the  table. 

The  PRESIDENT— That  is  out  of  order.  It 
will  take  the  whole  with  it.  The  question  must 
be  on  the  adoption  of  the  amendment. 

Amendment  submitted  and  lost. 

ANOTHER  AMENDMENT. 

Mr.  WILMOT  of  Pennsylvania— I  move  that 
the  resolutions  be  adopted  separately.  [Cries 
of  "  No,"  and  "  Take  them  in  a  lot,"  &c.j  I 
have  an  amendment  to  offer  which  I  believe 
will  commend  itself  to  the  good  sense  of  every 
gentleman  here.  The  amendment  is  this:  in 


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the  14th  resolution  we  say  "  that  the  Republican 
party  is  opposed  to  any  change  in  our  Naturali- 
zation Laws,  or  any  State  Itgislation.  by  which 
the  rights  of  citizenship  hith.-rto  accorded  to 
immigrants  from  foreign  lands  shall  be  abridged 
or  impaired  ;  and  in  favor  of  giving  a  full  aud 
efficient  protection  to  the  rights  of  all 
classes  of  citizens,  whether  native  or 
naturalized,  both  at  home  and  abroad." 
My  amendment  is  to  strike  out  the  words 
"State  legislation,"  because  it  conflicts  directly 
with  the  doctrine  in  the  4th  resolution,  which 
reads  thus : 

"That  the  maintenance  in  violate  of  the  Rights 
of  the  States,  and  especially  the  right  of  each 
State  to  order  and  control  its  own  domestic  in- 
stitutions according  to  its  own  judgment  exclu- 
sively, is  essential  to  that  balance  of  powers  on 
which  the  perfection  and  endurance  of  our  po- 
litioal  fabric  depends;  and  we  denounce  the 
lawless  invasion,  by  armed  force,  of  the  soil  of 
any  State  or  Territory,  no  matter  under  what 
pretext,  as  among  the  gravest  of  crimes." 

The  resolution  would  then  read,  "That  the 
Republican  party  is  opposed  to  any  change  in 
our  naturalization  laws,  by  which  the  rights  of 
citizenship  hitherto  accorded  to  immigrants 
from  foreign  lands  shall  be  abridged  or  im- 
paired." 

Judge  JESSUP,  (of  Pennsylvania,  and  Chair- 
man of  the  Committee  on  Platform.) — The  rea- 
son why  these  words  were  inserted  in  that  res- 
olution I  will  state.  I  desire  briefly  to  state 
to  the  convention  that  the  naturalization  laws 
are  producing  a  sad  state  of  feeling  among  a  large 
number  of  the  Republican  party.  A  great 
many  Republicans  are  of  foreign  birth,  and 
they  have  felt  that  it  was  due  to  them  that  the 
Republicans  should  affirm  first  that  they  do  not 
desire  to  interfere  with  the  present  existing 
naturalization  laws;  secondly,  that  they  as  a 
party  do  not  approve  of  the  change  of  the  na- 
turalization laws  by  the  several  States,  and 
that  they  do  not  approve  of  that  legislation 
which  went  to  impair  the  rights  which 
the  naturalization  laws  of  the  Union 

five  to  naturalized  citizens.  That,  Mr. 
resident,  was  what  was  intended 
by  the  words  which  are  now  proposed  to  be 
stricken  out.  I  state,  therefore,  that  it  is  not 
proposed  to  interfere  with  State  rights.  It  is 
not  proposed,  nor  does  it  in  the  least  conflict 
with  any  principle,  if  it  be  looked  at  properly, 
before  established  in  these  resolutions.  It  sim- 
ply affirms  that  the  Republican  party  is  "  op- 
posed to  any  change  in  the  naturalization  laws, 
or  any  legislation — State  legislation — by  which 
the  rights  of  citizens  hitherto  conferred  upon 
emigrants  from  foreign  lands  shall  be  abridged 
or  impaired."  Now,  I  wish  to  know  if  my 
colleague  from  Pennsylvania  affirms  that  he  is 
ready  to  permit,  with  his  consent,  the  State  leg- 
islatures to  impair  the  rights  that  are  guaran- 
teed, under  our  laws,  to  emigrants  becoming 
citizens.  I  think  it  is  a  misapprehension  on 
the  part  of  my  colleague,  of  the  true  intent  and 
import  of  this  resolution.  I  trust  if  he  looks  at 
it  again,  be  will  withdraw  his  amendment. 

MR.  WILMOT,  of  Pennsylvania— I  do  not 
know  but  I  misapprehend  this  clause.  The 
declaration  here  reads  thus : 

"That  the  Republican  party  is  opposed  to  any 
change  in  our  naturalization  laws,  or  any  State 
legislation,  by  which  the  rights  of  citizenship 
hitherto  afforded  to  emigrants  from  foreign 
lands,  shall  be  abridged  or  impaired." 

Now  my  amendment  was,  to  strike  out  "  or 
any  State  legislation."  My  idea  was  this,  (and 
you  may  judge  whether  I  was  correct  or  not,) 


that  it  conflicted  with  the  fourth  resolution, 
which  declares  : 

"That  the  maintaining  inviolate  of  the  rights 
of  the  States,  especially  of  each  State,  to  order 
and  control  its  OAU  domestic  institutions  ac- 
cording to  its  own  judgment  exclusively  is  es- 
sential to  that  balance  of  power,"  &c. 

This  is  a  broad  declaration  of  State  rights — a 
just  declaration  of  State  rights;  and  under  that 
any  State  in  this — every  State  in  this  Union 
has  a  perfect  power  to  prescribe  qualification  of 
voters.  Pennsylvania,  Massachusetts  or  any 
other  State  may  to-morrow,  if  its  sees  fit, 
by  a  change  of  her  Constitution,  not  only 
impair  the  right  of  foreign  citizens,  but  may 
modify  and  impair  the  rights  vested  in  native 
born  citizens.  She  may  change  her  Constitution 
and  provide  that  a  residence  of  two  years  shall 
be  required  to  entitle  a  man  to  vote.  That  was 
the  old  Constitution  of  Pennsylvania.  Pennsyl- 
vania tray  go  back ;  she  may  require  that  any 
person  coming  from  a  foreign  land  or  from  an- 
other State  shall  not  vote  until  he 
has  been  a  resident  two  years,  and 
on  the  doctrine  of  State  rights  has  she 
not  a  r:ght  to  do  it !  and  who  has  a  right  to 
complain  !  But  as  there  seems  to  be  a  doubt  or 
misunderstanding;  and  it  has  been  exclained  to 
me  here  that  they  not  controvert  the  right  of 
the  State  thus  to  modify  the  rights  of  foreign 
or  native  citizens,  but  merely  wish  to  make  the 
declaration  that  the  Republican  party , as  a  party, 
is  opposed  to  it.  If  that  be  the  object,  I  agree 
to  it,  and  in  that  view  I  am  willing  to  withdraw 
mv  amendment.  [Loud  cheers.J 

"Mr.  CARL  SCHURZ,  of  Wisconsin— As  the 
amendment  is  withdrawn  by  the  gentleman 
from  Pennsylvania  I  find  it  hardly  necessary  to 
address  the  Convention  upon  this  subject.  I 
wish  that  this  resolution  might  be  passed  with- 
out opposition.  The  German  Republicans  of 
the  Northern  States  have  given  you  300,000 
votes  [applause],  and  I  wish  that  they  should 
find  it  consistent  with  their  honor  and  their 
safety  to  give  you  300,000  more.  [Increased 
applause.]  That  paragraph,  I  think,  could 
never  have  been  asked  for  by  the  German  rep- 
resentatives if  one  occurrence  had  not 
taken  place.  The  year  1856  was  the  year  of 
good  feeling ;  we  all  joined  together  in  a  com- 
mon cause,  and  we  all  fought  the  common 
enemy.  We  did  so  with  honor  to  ourselves  and 
with  confidence  in  each  other.  There  was  no 
German  Republican,  I  believe,  who  would  have 
asked  for  anything  more  in  the  Philadelphia 
platform  but  the  resolution  which  is  there. — 
But,  since  it  has  been  found  that  that 
resolution  is  not  sufficient  to  protect 
them  from  intrenchment  upon  their  rights  in 
the  States,  I  will  show  you  how  they  reascn. 
They  said  our  rights  may  be  guaranteed  to  us 
in  a  national  platform  by  a  general  sentence, 
and  nevertheless  the  Legislatures  of  the  differ- 
ent States  may  defeat  the  very  purpose  for 
which  that  national  platform  was  enacted,  Of 
what  use,  then,  is  a  plank  in  a  platform  if  its 
purpose  thus  can  be  frustrated  by  an  act  of 
a  State  Legislature  ?  It  has  been  very  well  said 
that  it  was  not  the  purpose  of  this  resolu- 
tion to  declare  that  no  State  has  the  right  to 
regulate  the  suffrage  of  its  citizens  by  legisla- 
tive enactment,  but  it  was  the  purpose  to  de- 
clare that  the  Republican  party,  in  its  national 
capacity,  is  opposed  to  any  such  thing  in  prin- 
ciple. [Renewed  applause.]  Gentlemen,  the 
question  is  simply  this,  on  one  side  there  stands 
prejudice,  on  the  other  side  there  stands  right. 
You  please  calculate,  will  prejudice  give  us  more 
votes  or  will  right  give  ns  more  votes!  [Ap- 


plause  continued. ]  Let  me  tell  you  one  thing, 
that  the  votes  you  get  by  truckling  to  the  prej 
udices  of  people  will  never  be  safe ;  while  these 
votes  which  you  get  by  recognizing  consti- 
stitutioDal  rights  may  every  time  be 
counted  upon.  [Immense  applause  ]  Why 
gentlemen,  the  German  Republicans  of 
the  Northern  States  have  been  not  only  among 
the  most  faithful,  but  we  have  been  among  the 
most  unselfish  members  of  the  Republican  par- 
ty. We  never  come  to  you  asking  for  any  fa- 
vor; we  never  come  to  you  with  any  preten- 
sions; the  only  thing  we  ask  of  you  is  this  : 
that  we  shall  be  permitted  to  fight  for  our  com- 
mon cause ;  that  we  shall  be  permitted  to  find 
in  your  ranks  with  confidence  in  your 
principles  and  with  honor  to  ourselves.  [Great 
cheering.] 

Mr.  HAS3AURECK,  of  Ohio— [Applause] — 
Gentlemen  of  the  Convention  :  1  am  not  going 
to  detain  you  for  any  length  of  time  in  support 
of  the  motion  now  before  the  Convention,  but  I 
am  in  favor,  gentlemen,  of  the  adoption  of  this 
resolution,  not  because  I  am  an  adopted  citi- 
zen, but  because  I  claim  to  be  a  true  American. 
[Cheers.]  Gentlemen,  I  claim  to  be  an  Ameri 
can,  although  I  happened  to  be  born  on  the  oth- 
er side  of  the  Atlantic  Ocean.  [Renewed  ap- 
plause.] I  breathed  true  Americanism  before  my 
foot  had  ever  stepped  on  American  soil.  [Ap- 
plause ]  I  loved  t  his  country  before  my  eyes 
had  ever  beheld  its  hospitable  snil.  I  had  sworn 
allegiance  to  the  spirit  of  its  free  institutions 
years  before  I  made  the  formal  declaration  of 
loyalty.  [Enthusiastic  cheers.]  Gentlemen, 
I  felt  the  spirit  of  true  Americanism  thrill  my 
heart  when,  as  a  boy  in  school,  I  first  read  of 
the  heroic  deeds  of  the  immortal  Washington. 
[Great  and  prolonged  applause.]  I  hailed  true 
Americanism  when  I  first  heard  of  the  great 
Thomas  Jefierson,  who,  upon  the  i.ltar  of  God, 
had  sworn  eternal  hostility  to  tyranny  in  every 
form.  [Renewed  applause.]  Gentlemen,  as  one 
who  has  suffered  the  stings  and  oppressions  of 
despotism,  I  claim  to  be  doubly  capable  of  ap- 
preciating the  blessings  of  liberty.  [Loud 
cheers.]  Gentlemen,  I  have  seen  the  nations 
of  Europe  smarting  under  the  arbitrary  rule  of 
despots,  and  I  know  what  an  inestimable  treas- 
ure, what  an  incalculable  boon  freedom  is  to 
man.  It  is,  therefore,  one  of  the  proudest  mo- 
ments of  m  v  life,  to  avail  myself  of  this  oppor- 
tunity as  doe  of  the  liberty  loving  Germans  of 
the  free  West,  before  this  vast  assembly  of  so 
many  of  the  best  and  true  men  of  the  nation, 
loudly  to  proclaim  my  undying  and  unfaltering 
love  and  adherence  to  the  principles  of  true 
Americanism.  [Great  applause.]  Gentlemen, 
if  it  is  Americanism  to  believe,  religiously  to 
believe  in  those  eternal  truths  announced  in 
the  Declaration  of  Independence,  that  all  men 
are  born  equal  and  free,  and  endowed  by  their 
Creator  with  certain  inalienable  rights,  among 
which  are  life,  liberty,  and  the  pursuit  of  happi- 
ness, I  am  proud  to  be  an  American.  [Applause] 
If  it  is  Americanism  firmly  to  believe  and  warm- 
ly to  cherish  the  memory  of  the  fathers  of  the 
Republic,  to  maintain  the  faith  and  perpetuate 
thegloiious  inheritance  which  they  have  left  to 
an  admiring  posterity,  I  shall  ever  be  an  Amer- 
ican. [Loud  cheers.]  If  it  is  Americanism, 
gentlemen,  to  believe  that  governments  are  in- 
stituted for  the  benefit  of  the  governed,  and  not 
for  the  benefit  of  the  privileged  few — if  it  is 
Americanism  to  believe  that  this  glorious  Fed- 
eration of  sovereign  States  has  a  higher  object 
and  a  nobler  purpose  than  to  be  the  mere  means 
of  fortifying,  protecting  and  propagating  the 
institution  of  human  servitude — if  it  is  Ameri- 


canism to  believe  that  these  vast  fertile  Terri- 
tories of  the  West  are  forever  to  remain  sacred, 
to  remain  as  free  homes  for  free  labor  and  free 
men,  I  shall  live  and  die  an  Ameracan.  [Tu- 
multuous cheering.]  Gentlemen,  if  it  is  Amer- 
icanism to  believe  that  the  American  Constitu- 
tion as  framed  by  the  Fathei  s  was  designed  as 
a  bulwark  of  freedom,  and  intended  to  secure 
the  blessings  of  liberty  to  ourselves  and  to  our 
posterity,  and  that  it  does  not  of  its  own  force 
carry  slavery  into  the  Territories  of  the  Uniied 
States,  but,  on  the  contrary,  means  freedom 
and  justice  wfierever  it  ge^es,  I  shall  ever  claim 
to  be  an  American.  [Great  applause.] 

And,  Mr.  President,  for  this  reason  I  am  in 
favor  of  the  adoption  of  the  resolution — not  be- 
cause I  claim  to  be  an  adopted  citizen  ;  but  be- 
cause I  claim,  and  shall  claim  to  the  end,  that  I 
sin  an  American — an  American  by  choice  ;  not 
an  American  by  birth,  it  is  true,  but  an  Ameri- 
can from  sentiment  and  from  principle.  Gen- 
tlemen, I  hop  a  this  resolution  will  pass  without 
objection  from  any  side.  There  are  more  than 
20.000  Republican  German  votes  in  the  State  of 
Ohio  alone  ;  and  they  shall  ever  be  cast  in  a 
solid  phalanx  for  the  candidate  who  is  to  be 
nominated  by  this  Convention.  [Renewed  ap- 
plause.] 

Mr.  CURTIS  of  New  York— What  is  the 
question  before  the  House  ? 

The  CHAIR — It  is  upon  the  adoption  of  the 
report. 

Mr.  CURTIS— I  then  offer  as  an  amendment 
to  the  report,  as  presented  by  the  committee, 
the  following :  That  the  second  clause  of  the  re- 
port shall  read,  "  That  the  maintenance  of  the 
principles  promulgated  in  the  Declaration  of 
Independence  and  embodied  in  the  Federal 
Constitution" — and  then,  sir,  I  propose  to 
amend  by  adding  these  words,  "That  all  men 
are  created  equal;  that  they  are  endowed  by 
their  Creator  with  certain  inalienable  rights ; 
that  among  these  are  life,  liberty  and  the  pur- 
suit of  happiness;  that  to  secure  these  rights, 
governments  are  instituted  among  men,  deriv- 
ing their  just  powers  from  the  consent  of  the 
governed" — then  proceed — "  is  essential  to  the 
preservation  of  our  Republican  institutions; 
and  that  the  Federal  Constitution,  the  Rights 
of  the  States,  and  the  Union  of  the  States,  must 
and  shall  be  preserved."  [Great  applause,  and 
many  gentlemen  struggling  for  the  floor.] 

Mr.  THAYER— Has  not  that  amendment  been 
once  voted  down? 

Mr.  CARTTER— I  rise  to  a  question  of  order. 

The  CH  AIR.  There  is  one  question  of  order 
already.  The  gentleman  from  New  York,  Mr. 
Curtis,  moves  to  amend  this  second  resolution 
in  the  words  which  he  has  read.  The  gentle- 
man from  Oregon,  Mr.  Thayer,  raises  the  ques- 
tion of  oraer  that  this  is  substantially  the  same 
proposition  already  voted  upon;  and  the  Chair 
sustains  the  question  of  order,  and  the  question 
recurs  on  the  adoption  of  the  Report. 

Mr.  BLAIR,  of  Missouri.  If  it  is  necessary, 
I  shall  appeal  from  the  decision  of  the  Chair. 
The  amendment  which  was  first  offered  was  to 
the  first  clause  or  section,  and  the  amendment 
offered  now  by  the  gentleman  from  New  York 
is  to  the  second  section,  and  it  is  an  entirely 
different  question.  I  think,  if  it  is  necessary, 
I  am  ready  to  take  an  appeal  from  the  decision 
of  the  Chair 

The  CHAIR.  I  took  it  from  the  statement 
of  the  gentleman  from  New  York,  that  he 
offered  the  same  amendment  oilerred  before 
by  Mr.  Gidings,  and  voted  on. 


MB.  BLAIR— It  is  offered  now  as  an  amend- 
ment to  the  second ;  then  it  was  to  the  fiirst 
resolution. 

The  CHAIR— Then  the  amendment  is  iu 
order. 

Mr  CURTIS— Have  I  the  floor? 

The  CHAIR— Yes,  Sir. 

Mr.  CURTIS  (fromhh  chair)— Mr.  President , 
I  have  a  word  to  say  on  *hat  amendment— [cries 
of  "  take  the  stand."]  I  can  speak  as  weM,  gen- 
tlemen, from  this  seat.  I  have  to  ask  this  Con- 
vention— the  second  National  Convention  the 
Republican  party  has  ever  held — I  have  to  ask 
this  Convention  whtther  they  are  prepared  to 
go  upon  the  record  and  before  the  country  as 
voting  down  the  words  of  the  Declaration  ot  In- 
dependence? [Cries  of  " No,"  "no,"  and  ap- 
plause.] I  have,  sir,  in  tLe  amendment  which 
I  have  introduced,  quoted  simply  and  only  from 
the  Declaration  ot  Independence.  Bear  in  mind 
that  in  Philadelphia  in  1856,  the  Convention  of 
this  same  great  party  were  not  afraid  to  an 
nounce  those  by  which  alone  the  Republican 
party  lives,  and  upon  which  alone  the  tuture  of 
this  country  in  the  hands  of  the  Republican 
party  is  passing.  [Tremendous  cheering. | 

Now,  sir,  I  ask  gentlemen  gravely  to  consider 
that  in  the  amendment  which  I  have  proposed, 
I  have  done  nothing  that  the  soundest  and 
safest  man  in  all  the  land  might  not  do  ;  and  I 
rise  simply — lor  I  am  now  sitting  down — I  rise 
simply  to  ask  gentlemen  to  think  well  before, 
upon  the  free  prairies  of  the  West,  in  the  sum- 
mer of  1860,  they  dare  to  wince  and  quail  before 
the  men  who  in  Philadelphia  in  1776—  in  Phila- 
delphia, in  th  Arch-Keystone  State,  so  amply, 
so  nobly  represented  upon  this  platform  to- 
day— before  they  dare  to  shrink  from  repeating 
the  words  that  these  great  men  enunciated. 
[Terrific  applause.] 

Mr.  OYLER,  of  Indiana— I  presume  that  all 
the  Republicans  here  are  in  favor  of  the  Declara- 
tion of  Innependence.  Does  it  necessarily  fol- 
low that  we  must  publish  it  in  our  platform? 
[The  crowd— "Yes."]  I  want  to  talk  to  the 
delegates  here.  I  ask  the  question,  if  it  is  ne- 
cessary to  put  it  in?  They  answer  me  it  is. 
Well,  then,  it  is  there  now.  (Voices — "  No.") 
Read  for  yourselves  the  second  resolution.  At 
voice — "  Put  it  in  twice.")  I  will  read  it  o) 
yeu : 

"  That  the  maintenance  of  the  principles  pro- 
mulgated in  the  Declaration  of  Independence 
and  embodied  in  the  Federal  Constitution  is  es- 
sential to  the  preservation  of  our  Republican 
institutions,  and  that  the  Federal  Constitution, 
the  Rights  of  the  States,  and  the  Union  of  the 
States  must  and  shall  be  preserved." 

Does  not  that  endorse  it  ?  We  believe  in  the 
Bible ;  shall  we  put  it  in  from  the  first  chapter 
of  Genesis  to  the  I -st  chapter  of  Revelations? 
We  believe  in  the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States ;  shall  we  put  it  in  from  first  to  last?  I 
say  no.  I  say  it  is  enough  for  us  to  assert  a 
belief  in,  »ud  our  confidence  in,  and  firm  re- 
liance in,  the  Declaration  of  Independence  and 
the  Constitution. 

Mr.  NYE,  of  New  York— I  want,  sir,  some- 
thing done  in  this  Convention.  [Cries  of 
"  vote."]  I  am  only  anxious',  sir,  that  some- 
thing should  be  done  in  this  Convention  to 
mark  with  great  distincness  and  in  unmistaka- 
ble terms,  that  we  endorse  the  language  and 
that  poitiou  of  the  language  of  the  Declaration 
of  Independence  that  is  moved  as  an  amend- 
ment to  the  2d  resolution.  [Cheers  and  voices, 
"You  shall  have  it,"  "we  will,"  "you  shall 
haveitifjou  say  no  more  about  it."]  That, 
sir,  is  all  I  want.  I  am  exceeaingly  glad  that 


simply  the  fear  of  a  speech  from  me  should  in- 
duce gentlemen  to  vote  in  that  way.  [Laugh- 
ter and  applause.) 

The  question  being  on  the  amendment  offered 
by  Mr.  Curtis  of  New  York,  the  vote  was  taken 
and  the  amendment  adopted. 

The  question  now  recurring  on  the  adoption 
of  the  report  of  the  committee,  the  Platform 
was  adopted  unanimously  with  a  shout  of  ap- 
plause. 

Upon  the  adoption  of  the  Platform,  the  dele- 
gates and  the  whole  of  the  vast  audience  rose 
to  their  feet  in  a  transport  of  enthusiasm,  the 
ladies  waving  their  handkerchiefs  and  the  gen- 
tlemen their  hats,  while  for  many  minutes  the 
tremendous  cheers  and  shouts  of  applause  con- 
tinued, and  again  and  again  were  renewed  and 
repeated. 

The  Chair,  as  soon  as  order  was  partially  re- 
stored, announced  that  several  gentlemen  would 
speak  in  the  Wigwam  at  night. 

Mr.  GOODRICH— I  move  that  we  adjourn. 
[Cries  of  "  No,"  "No."  "  Ballot,"  "  Ballot."] 
I  withdraw  the  motion,  and  move  that  we  now 
proceed  to  ballot  for  a  candidate  for  the  Presi- 
dency. [Applause.] 

Mr.  EGGLESTON— I  renew  the  motion  to 
adjourn. 

The  motion  to  adjourn  was  put  and  lost. 

Mr.  R.  M.  CORWINE— I  move  that  we  now 
proceed  to  ballot  for  President.  [Great  disor- 
der, and  cries  of  "  Ballot,"  "  Ballot."] 

Mr.  CARTTER— I  call  for  a  division  by  ayes 
and  nays,  to  see  if  gentlemen  want  to  go  with- 
out their  supper.  [Derisive  laughter,  and  cries 
of ''Call  the  roll."] 

The  CHAIR— I  am  requested  by  the  Secretary 
to  inform  the  gentlemen  of  the  Convention  that 
the  papers  necessary  for  the  purpose  of  keeping 
the  tally  are  prepared,  but  are  not  yet  at  hand, 
but  will  be  in  a  few  minutes. 

A  VOICE— I  move  that  this  Convention  ad- 
journ until  10  o'clock  to-morrow  morning. 

The  motion  prevailed,  and  the  Convention  ad- 
journed until  10  o'clock  to-morrow  morning. 


THIRD    DAT. 


The  Convention  re-assembled  at  ten  o'clock 
agreeably  to  adjournment.  After  the  delegate 
had  seated  themselves,  the  proceedings  were 
opened  by  the  following  prayer,  by  Rev.  M. 
Green,  of  Chicago. 

Our  Lord,  our  God,  we  adore  thee  as  the  Eternil,  Im- 
mortal, Invisible,  and  only  true  God.  Every  excellence  ad- 
orns thy  nature  ;  every  attribute  of  majesty  supports  thy 
throne.  Thou  ait  our  God,  and  we  will  praise  thee ;  our 
father's  God,  and  we  will  exalt  thee.  We  thank  thee,  O 
Lord,  for  thy  numberless  kindnesses  which  thou  hast  maul- 
rested  towards  this  people,  In  their  origin,  in  their  deliver- 
ance from  subsequent  evils  which  have  threat>ned  them, 
and  for  the  high  degree  of  nrosperlty  which  we  btill  enjoy. 
0  God,  forbid  that  we,  their  descendants,  should  be  un- 
worthy of  our  sires,  who  acknowledge  thee  la  their  w  ays, 
and  invoke  thy  benediction  upon  their  efforts  to  establish  a 
free  Government.  Lord,  we  entreat  thee  who  hast  deliv- 
ered us  from  external  enemies,  to  protect  us  from  intestine 
evil.  Oh  !  do  thou,  Infinite  d'sposer  of  events,  perpetuate 
our  liberties.  And  now,  we  thank  thee  that  thou  hast  per- 
mitted those  delegate  s  of  the  people  to  assemble  and  so  far 
to  pursue  their  object  with  such  harm  nyand  mutual  re- 
respect.  We  pray  thee  still  to  clothe  thy  servant,  the  Presi- 
dent of  this  body,  with  the  authority  requisite  lor  his  ex- 
alted post,  and  we  entreat  thee  to  bring  to  a  happy  result 
the  labors  of  this  body  of  rei  res%ntalives  of  ti  e  people,  o' 
we  entreat  thee,  that  at  some  future  but  no  no  di  tantday 
the  evils  which  now  invesis  the  body  politic  shall  not  only 
have  been  arrested  In  lis  progress  but  wholly  eradicated 
from  the  system.  And  may  the  pen  of  the  h  storian  trace 
an  intimate  connection  bet  ween  that  glorious  consummation 


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anl  the  transaction  of  this  Convention.  0  Lord,  our  Ood, 
thou  a  t  In  Heaven  and  on  earth,  th°refore  should  our 
•wo-dsbefew.  Our  prayer  is  now  i  efore  thee.  Wilt  thou 
he  r,  accept  and  answer  it,  for  the  sake  ot  our  Redeemer. 
Amea. 

COMMUNICATIONS. 

'  The  PRESIDENT— Gentlemen  of  the  Conven- 
tion :  The  Chair  feels  it  his  first  duty  this  morn- 
ing to  appeal,  not  merely  to  the  gentlemen  of 
the  Convention,  but  to  every  individual  of  this 
vast  audience,  to  remember  the  utmost  import- 
ance of  keeping  and  preserving  order  during 
the  entire  session— as  much  silence  as  possible ; 
and  he  asks  gentlemen  who  are  not  members  of 
this  Convention,  in  the  name  of  this  Conven- 
tion, that  they  will,  to  their  utmost  ability,  re- 
frain from  any  demonstrations  that  may  dis- 
turb the  proceedings  of  the  Convention.  I 
should  suggest  to  the  delegates  that  they  them- 
selves set  the  example  to  their  friends  who  are 
not  members  of  i  his  Convention;  that  each  will  to 
the  utmost  of  his  individual  capacity,  co-operate 
with  the  Chair  in  keening  entire  order. 

The  Chair  has  received  some  communications, 
which  be  will  lay  before  the  Convention. 

The  Secretary  read  the  communications,  as 
follows  : 

CHICAGO,  May  18,  1860. 

HON.  GEORGE  ASHMUN,  President  of  the  National 
Convention,  Chicago : 

Dear  Sir — The  delegates  of  the  Convention 
are  invited  to  an  excursion,  on  Monday  next, 
over  the  Galena  and  Chicago  Union  Railroad  to 
Dubuque,  thence  down  the  Mississippi  River  to 
Fulton  or  Clinton,  from  which  place  they  can 
return  to  Chicago  on  Tuesday  evening,  or- ex- 
tend their  excursion  to  Cedar  Rapids,  over  the 
Chicago,  Iowa  and  Nebraska  Railroad,  and  re- 
turn on  Wednesday  evening  in  time  to  connect 
with  Eastern  trains. 

Very  respectfully,  yours, 

"E.  B.  TALCOTT,  Supt. 

A  DELEGATE— I  move  that  it  lie  on  the 
table  for  the  present. 

The  PRESIDENT— The  Chair  has  received 
another  communication,  which  will  be  read. 

The  Secretary  read  : 

NEW  YORK,  May  17. 
To  the  Republican  National  Convention  : 

At  a  meeting  of  the  representatives  of  the 
Working  men  of  the  different  wards  of  this  city, 
Brooklyn,  Williamsburgh,and  Greenooint,  held 
on  the  evening  of  the  16th  inst.,  at  Union  Hall, 
195  Bowery,  it  was — 

Rtsolved,  That  the  officers  of  the  meeting  be 
instructed  to  address  the  Republican  National 
Convention,  to  assemble  at  Chicago,  and  re- 
spectfully request  the  Convention  to  declare 
itself  opposed  to  all  further  traffic  in  the  public 
lands  of  the  U.  S..  and  in  favor  of  laying  them 
out  in  farm*  and  lots  for  the  exclusive  use  of 
actual  settlers. 

We  see  this  singular  condition  of  affairs,  that 
•while  wealth  in  our  own  country  is  accumula- 
ting; while  internal  improvements  of  every  de- 
scription are  fast  increasing,  yet  with  all  these 
advantages,  the  compensation  for  useful  labor 
is  getting  less  and  less.  We  seek  the  cause  of 
this  anomaly,  and  we  trace  it  to  the  monopoly  of 
the  land,  with  labor  at  the  mercy  of  capitalists. 
We  therefore  desire  to  abolish  the  monopoly, 
not  by  interfering  with  the  conventional  rights 
of  persons  now  in  possession,  but,  by  arresting 
the  further  sale  of  nil  land  not  yet  appropriated 
as  private  property,  and  by  allowing  those 
lands  hereafter  to  be  freely  occupied  by  those 
who  may  choose  to  settle  on  them.  We  propose 
that  the  public  land  hereafter  shall  not  be  own- 
ed, but  occupied  only.  The  occupant  having 
the  right  to  the  sale  of  his  or  her  improvements 


to  any  one  not  in  possession  of  other  land*,  so 
that  by  preventing  individuals  from  becoming 
possessed  of  more  than  a  limited  quantity,  any 
one  may  enjoy  the  right. 

Respectfully  yours, 

HBNRT  BENNINO,  Gk'n. 

The  PRESIDENT— The  Chair  would  suggest 
that  the  Committee  on  Platform  and  Resolutions 
having  reported,  and  their  report  covering  the 
the  subject-matter  of  this  resolution,  that  the 
communication  lie  upon  the  table.  Assented  to. 

The  CHAIR-  At  i  he  adjournment  a  motion  was 
pending,  made  by  Mr.  Goodrich  of  Minnesota, 
that  the  Convention  do  now  proceed  to  ballot 
for  a  candidate  for  President  of  the  United 
States.  [Applause  ~|  That  motion  is  the  busi- 
ness now  in  order.  [Cries  of  "  question,'' 
"  question."] 

THE  MARYLAND   DELEGATION. 

Mr.  BLAIR  of  Maryland.  Before  the  vote  is 
taken  upon  that  question  I  wish  to  ask  leave  to 
file  the  credentials  of  additional  delegates  to  fill 
up  the  delegation  from  the  State  of  Maryland. 
This  is  made  necessary  by  the  resolution  or  rule 
adopted  yesterday  by  the  Convention,  which 
provided  that  the  votes  of  the  delegation  from 
each  State  should  be  confined  to  the  number  of 
delegates  present.  The  delegation  from  Mary- 
land, not  being  full,  it  became  necessary,  under 
that  rule,  in  order  to  cast  the  full  vote  of  the 
State,  that  the  delegation  should  be  filled.  At 
a  meeting  held  last  evening,  the  delegation  was 
filled,  in  pursuance  of  the  authority  given  us 
by  the  State  Convention  of  Maryland,  which  we 
represent  on  this  flo-r,  I  therefore  offer  the 
credentials  of  five  additional  delegates  now 
present  in  their  seats  completing  the  delegation. 
[Cries  of  "leave,"  "leave."] 

The  CHAIR — No  objection  being  made  they 
will  be  received.  What  do  you  say  ? 

Mr.  SARGENT,  of  California.— The  ratio  of 
representation,  as  at  present  constituted,  gives 
to  Maryland  eleven  votes.  I  wish  to  inquire  if 
the  effect  of  receiving  these  credentials  is  to 
increase  the  number  of  votes  to  sixteen,  or 
twice  the  number  of  her  electoral  vote,  or  if 
that  vote  is  still  simply  eleven  ?  If  it  is  merely 
to  receiving  these  gentlemen  upon  this  floor  to 
advise  with  the  Maryland  delegation,  there  can 
be  no  objection  to  the  increase — letting  the 
Maryland  delegation  stand  on  the  same  footing 
as  now ;  but  ifit  is  proposed  to  increase  their 
vote  in  this  convention,  I  shall  certainly  oppose 
it.  If  It  is  proposed  now  to  increase  the  vote 
cast  by  that  or  any  other  State,  I  object.  It 
seems  to  me  that  this  matter  was  fully  consid- 
ered by  the  committee  on  credentials,  voted  on 
by  the  conventicn  when  they  received  the  re- 
port of  that  committee ;  their  report  is  before 
the  Convention,  having  been  received,  and  be- 
fore the  vote  of  any  State  is  increased,  it 
seems  to  me  that  the  matter  ought  to  go  back 
to  the  Committee,  and  they  should  investigate 
the  matter,  and  understand  by  what  authority 
this  increase  'S  made.  I  therefore  ask  for  in- 
lormation  whether  this  proposition  is  to  in- 
crease the  vote  of  Maryland,  or  to  increase  the 
number  of  persons  who  will  cast  the  vote 
already  determined  upon?  If  I  am  right  in 
supposing  that  it  is  to  increase  their  vote  I 
shall  oppose  it. 

Mr.  COALE,  of  Maryland.  I  will  answer  the 
gentleman.  We  had  to  come  some  distance  to 
get  here  ;  and  we  found  when  we  met  that 
there  were  only  eleven  gentlemen  present.  And 
so  I,as  a  member  of  the  Committee  on  elections, 
handed  in  eleven  names,because  there  were  on- 
ly eleven  of  us  present.  I  stated,  at  the  same 


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time,  that  there  was  a  full  delegation  elected, 
and  that  we  had  full  power  from  our  constitu- 
ents to  fill  up  all  vacancies.  We  had  the  power 
and  we  had  therignt,  but  we  deemed  it  improp- 
er and  immodest  in  us  to  ceme  forward  at  first 
and  claim  to  cast  the  vote  of  the  whole  conven- 
tion until  we  found  Marylanders  enough  were 
present,  ready  and  willing  to  take  their  places 
with  us.  Our  delegation  then  held  a  meeting, 
and  according  to  the  right  that  has  been  exer- 
cised by  every  other  delegation,  and  the  au- 
thority given  to  us  by  our  constituents,  we 
filled  the  vacancies;  and  the  gentlemen  are 
here  present.  Shall  we  be  thrown  c-ut  now  ? 
Shall  we  be  told  that  we  are  not  to  have  the 
privelegesof  other  delegations?  That  we  are 
forbidden  to  do  that  which  has  beeo  done  by 
others  ?  I  have  no  idea  that  such  illiberality 
will  be  extended  to  us. 

Mr.  SARGENT,  of  California-By  the  report 
of  the  Committee,  Maryland  is  entit'ed  to  cast 
eleven  votes.  The  question  is  now,  whether 
Maryland  proposes  to  cast  any  beyond  the  eleven 
votes  ? 

Mr.  CO  ALE,  of  Maryland— No,  sir.  We  have 
six  Congressional  Districts,  and  we  have  six 
votes  in  virtue  of  these  districts,  and  we  have 
two  Senators,  making  eight,  and  to  cast  the 
full  vote  we  double  that  number,  making  six- 
teen. In  that  way  we  would  vote  according  to 
the  same  ratio  with  the  other  delegations. — 
["  That's  right,"  "  that's  right."] 

The  CHAIR— The  chair  understands  that  on 
yesterday  the  Convention  adopted  a  report  of 
the  Committee  on  Credentials,  declaring  Mary- 
land entitled  to  eleven  delegates,  to  cast  eight 
,vo  es;  and  understood,  also,  that  proposition 
made  this  morning,  if  adopted  and  ratified  by 
the  Convention,  will  give  the  power  to  sixteen 
gentlemen  to  cast  eight  votes— the  same  num- 
ber, precisely,  as  before. 

Mr.  M.  BLAIR,  (of  Maryland.)  The  Commit- 
tee on  Credentials  reported  that  the  delegates 
present  should  cast  the  vote  of  the  State.  Our 
State  is  entitled,  on  this  floor,  to  16  delegates. 
While  that  report  was  before  the  Convention, 
and  before  the  vote  was  taken  on  it,  the  gentle- 
man from  Minnesota  (Mr.  Goodrich)  offered  an 
amendment  which  limited  the  vote  of  the  State 
to  the  delegates  present,  and  that  made  it  in- 
cumbent upon  us,  in  order  to  cast  the  vote  of 
the  State,  to  fill  up  the  delegation.  That  is  the 
explanation,  gentlemen,  why  we  did  not  till  it 
up  when  we  first  came  here.  The  body  has  be- 
fore allowed  the  delegates  to  cast  the  vote  of 
the  State,  whether  more  or  less  were  present. 
\Ve  expected  to  cast  the  whole  10  votesof  Mary- 
land. Now,  we  ask,  in  pursuance  of  the  author- 
ity given  us  by  the  State  Convention  of  Mary- 
land, to  fill  up  our  delegation,  and  be  able  to 
oast  the  whole  vote  of  the  State  of  Maryland.  I 
have  not  heard  any  gentleman  object  to  our  pro- 
position to  cast  the  full  vote. 

Mr.  BENTON,of  New  Hampshise,  and  Chair- 
man of  the  Committee  on  Credentials — It  was 
proposed  to  limit  the  number  of  votes  to  the 
number  of  delegates  actually  present.  This 
was  agreed  to  not  only  in  reference  to  the  State 
of  Maryland,  but  Virginia,  Oregon  and  Texas. 
It  was  discussed  in  Committee,  and  it  was  finally 
agreed  that  this  State  should  be  allowed  to  cast 
11  votes.  After  the  Committee  adjourned  one 
gentleman  appeared  and  asked  to  be  allowed  to 
appear  on  the  floor  aud  vote.  I  told  him  it  was 
too  late.  It  was  generally  understood,  and  it 
was  acted  upon  by  almost  nnanimous  consent, 
that  the  States  which  were  not  fully  represented 
should  claim  no  more  votes  in  the  Convention 
than  those  here  actually  present  either  real  or 
substituted  delegates. 


Mr.  ARMOUR,  of  Maryland.— As  one  of  the 
delegates  from  the  State  of  Maryland,  I  object 
to  the  credentials  being  received.  ["  Louder."] 
This  is  a  matter  of  business  and  is  not  for  out- 
siders. [A  voice — "  We  ain't  outsiders."]  I  say 
then  that  there  are  only  eleven  of  us  here,  of  the 
sixteen  appointed  by  our  State  Convention. 
The  Committee  on  Credentials  reported  that 
fact.  Since  the  adjournment  of  the  Conven- 
tion—[A  voice—"  If  you  will  take  your  seat  on 
this  side  of  the  house,  the  Convention  can  hear 
yen.  We  cannot  hear  you  now."]  I  have  a  rea- 
son, as  one  of  the  eleven  delegates  from  the 
State  of  Maryland,  to  enter  my  solemn  protest 
against  the  reception  of  the  credentials  as  tilled 
up.  We  met  in  the  city  of  Baltimore  and  ap- 
pointed eight  delegates  and  eight  alternates. 
But  eleven  of  us  are  here.  Eleven  names  were 
yesterday  presented  to  the  Committee  on  Cre- 
dentials, and  the  Committee  on  Credentials 
made  their  report,  and  reported  us  eleven  pres- 
ent and  entitled  to  eight  votes.  Since  the  ad- 
journment of  the  Convention  on  yesterday  a 
portion  of  my  co-delegates — I  am  not  here  to 
impugn  their  motives,  nor  do  I  intend  to  do  so 
— a  portion  of  them  met  without  my  knowledge, 
without  the  knowledge  of  at  least  one  more, 
and  perhaps  two  more  of  the  delegates,  and 
have  filled  up  our  delegation  from  gentlemen, 
God  almighty  only  knows  where  they  live.  [Ap- 
plause and  laughter.] 

1  do  not  wish  to  place  myself  in  an  attitude 
hostile  to  a  majority  of  my  delegation.  I  do 
not  wish  to  throw  any  embarrassment  in  the 
way  of  the  peaceful  settlement  of  all  the  busi- 
ness that  has  brought  us  together,  but  I  wish 
to  say  that  there  is  a  gentleman  here  from 
Maryland  who  has  been  knocking  at  the 
door  of  this  convention,  but  who  has  not  been 
received;  my  co  delegates  have  refused  to  fill  up 
the  delegation  with  his  name,  and  have,  tor  pur- 
poses known  only  to  themselves,  filled  it  up 
with  outsiders.  For  this  reason,  lor  the  reason 
that  the  delegation  has  been  made  full  by  placing 
upon  it  the  names  of  men  unknown  to  me;  by 
placing  upon  it  the  names  of  non-residents  of 
the  State  of  Maryland;  and  because  I  bad  no 
knowledge  that  this  meeting  was  coming  to- 
gether; because  I  have  not  co-operated  m  this 
movement;  because  I  do  not  know  the  purpose 
for  which  this  delegation  has  been  filled  up, 
and  because  I  think  we  should  not  pretend  to 
present  in  this  convention,  a  stronger  front 
than  that  which  we  possess.  We  have  eleven 
men  here,  and  we  (should  only  vote  our  eleven 
votes,  I  hope  gentlemen  of  the  convention, 
you  will  vote  this  thing  down.  [Applause  and 
cries  for  the  question.] 

Mr.  CARTTER  of  Ohio— I  call  for  the  previ- 
ous question. 

Previous  question  sustained,  and  motion  to 
receive  the  delegates  lost. 

1  HE  NOMINATION. 

Mr.  -VARTS  of  New  York— Mr.  Chairman  : 
As  the  Convention  has  by  its  vote  decided  to 
proceed  to  a  ballot,  you  may  be  assured  that  I 
do  not  i  ise  for  the  purpose  of  making  a  speech. 
I  rise  si  tply  to  ask,  sir,  whether  it  is  in  order 
to  preseut  names  in  nomination? 

The  PRESIDENT— The  Chair  is  of  the  opin- 
ion that  under  the  execution  of  the  order 
adopted,  it  may  be  in  ordfcr  to  put  in  nomina- 
tion such  persons  as  you  may  desire,  without 
debate. 

Mr.  EVARTS— I  rise— 

A  VOICE — The  Pennsylvania  delegation  is 
not  provided  with  seats.  [Voices — "  Get  them 
quick."] 


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The  PRESIDENT— I  will  take  this  opportu- 
nity to  present  a  communication  received  by 
the  Chair. 

The  SECRETARY  read  :— 

CHICAGO,  May  18, 1S60. 

We  feel  It  our  duty  to  Inform  you  that  members  of  your 
Convention  pass  their  tickets  over  the  raMiigs  and  through 
the  windows  to  thtir  friends  who  are  not  e'-tit^d  to  seats. 
If  the  Convention  find  inconvenience.it  is  the  fault  of  the 
mem  'era  and  not  through  our  in'eriereme.  Any  instruc- 
tions you  think  proper  to  give  Jjlijjs'rjctly  carried  out. 

PETER    rA(jr&. 

GUttDON  S.  HUBBARD, 
CHAS.  N.  HOLDEN. 

The  CH  ATE  requested  ths  delegates  to  avoid 
the  inconvenience  spoken  of  by  purging  their 
own  seats  of  outsiders. 

Mr.  EVARTS,  of  New  York— In  the  order 
of  business  before  the  Convention,  Sir,  I  take 
the  liberty  to  name  as  a  candidate  to  be  nom- 
inated by  this  Convention  for  the  office  of 
President  of  the  United  States,  William  H. 
Seward.  [Prolonged  applause  ] 

Mr.  JUDD.  of  Illinois— I  desire,  on  behalf  of 
the  delegation  from  Illinois,  to  put  in  nomina- 
tion, as  a  candidate  for  President  of  the  United 
States,  Abraham  Lincoln  of  Illinois.  [Immense 
applause,  long  continued.] 

Mr.  DUDLEY,  of  New  Jersey— Mr.  Presi- 
dent, New  Jersey  presents  the  name  of  William 
L.  Daylon.  [Applause.] 

Mr.  REEDER,  of  Pennsylvania— Pennsyl- 
vania nominates  as  her  candidate  for  the  Presi- 
dency General  Simeon  Cameron.  [Cheers.] 

Mr.  CARTTER,  of  Ohio— Ohia  presents  to 
the  consideration  of  this  Convention  as  a  can- 
didate for  President,  the  name  of  Salmon  P. 
Chase.  [Applause.] 

Mr.  C.  B.  SMITH,  of  Indiana— I  desire,  on 
behalf  of  the  delegation  from  Indiana,  to  second 
the  nomination  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  of  Illinois. 
[Tremendous  applause.] 

Mr.  BLAIR, of  Missouri— lam  commissioned 
by  the  representatives  of  the  State  of  .Missouri 
to  present  to  this  Convention  the  name  of 
Edward  Bates  as  a  candidate  for  the  Presidency. 

Mr.  BLAIR  of  Michigan— In  behalf  of  the  del- 
egation from  Michigan  I  second  the  nomination 
for  President  of  the  United  States,  of  William 
H.  Seward.  [Loud  Applause.] 

Mr.  COR  WIN  of  Ohio— I  rise,  Mr.  President, 
at  the  request  of  many  gentlemen,  part  of  them 
members  of  this  Convention,  and  many  of  them 
of  the  most  respectable  gentlemen  known  to 
the  history  of  this  country  and  its  politics,  to 

[Applause.] 
am  commis- 
sioned by  the  delegation  from  the  State  of  Wis- 
consin, to  second  the  nomination  of  William  H. 
Seward,  of  New  York.  [Warm  applause.] 

MR.  NORTH,  of  Minnesota— I  am  commis- 
sioned, on  behalf  of  the  delegation  from  Minne- 
sota, to  second  the  nomination  of  William  H. 
Seward.  [Applause.] 

MR.  PHiLLIPS,  of  Kansas-I  am  commis 
aioned,  not  only  by  tke  delegation  from  Kansas 
but  by  the  people  of  Kansas,  to  present  the 
name  of  William  H.  Seward,  of  New  York. 

MR.  DELANO,  of  Ohio— I  rise  on  behalf  of 
a  portion  of  the  delegation  from  Ohio,  to  put  in 
nomination  the  man  who  can  split  rails  anc 
maul  Democrats— Abraham  Lincoln.  [Great 
applause.] 

MR.  LOGAN,  of  Illinois— Mr.  President:  In 
order  or  out  of  order,  I  desire  to  move  that  this 
Convention,  for  itself  and  this  vast  audience, 
to  give  three  cheers  for  all  the  candidates  pre- 
sented bv  the  Republican  party. 

The  PRESIDENT— The  gentleman  is  out  of 
order. 


present  the  name  of  John  McLean. 
MR.  SCHURZ.of  Wisconsin— I 


MR.  Stone,  of  Iowa— Mr.  President,  I  rise  in 
the  name  of  two  thirds  of  the  delegation  of 
Iowa,  to  second  the  nomination  of  Abra- 
ham Lincoln.  [Great  Applause.] 

MR.  ANDREW,  of  Massachusetts— I  move 
you  that  we  proceed  to  vote. 

The  Convention  then  balloted,  with  the  fol- 
lowing result : 

FIRST  BALLOT. 

BTA^S.       | 


Main* 10     6 

M.Hampshire.  I     7 1    ....     1    .. 

Vermont '•    ••    10 

Mas*aehns'ts.21     4 '      

Khodelsland 1611 

Connecticut..  .      2      1    ..      7    ....      2 

Nsw  York.. ..70 

New  Jersey 14 

Pennsylvania,  li    4    ..    47|  ..      1 

Maryland....  3 8 

Delaware * ••    >»     •• 

Viirginla 8    14    ..      1 ,    ..     •• 

Kentucky....  5     6     2    ....      1    ..      8    ..      1    .... 

)hlo 8 4    .      34 

[ndiaca 26 '.     ..       •     

Mlss-uri 18 

Michigan 12 

Illinois 22 

as 4 2 

Wisconsin....  10 

Iowa S     2    ..      1     1     1    -.     1 

alifornia....  8 

Minnesota....  8 

Oregon 6 

TEKMTOBIE  . 

Kansie 6 

Nebraska ....  2     1    ..     1 2 

Dist  Col'mbia  2 


EXPLANATION,  &C. 

Mr.  TRA.CY,  of  California— I  wish  to  say, 
as  there  has  been  one  vote  cast  for  Mr.  Fremont, 
that  he  is  not  a  candidate  before  this  Conven- 
tion. 

When  the  Stfte  of  Maryland  was  called,  du- 
ring the  vote,  Mr.  COCHRANE,  Chairman  of 
the  delegation  said : 

The  Republican  State  Convention  of  Mary- 
land having  requested  that  the  delegation  should 
vote  as  a  unit,  I  therefore,  in  accordance  with 
the  wishes  of  a  majority  of  the  delegation,  cast 
11  votes  for  Edward  Bates.  [Applause.] 

Mr.  COALE,  of  Md.— I  object  to  that.  I  am 
a  freeman  in  Mary  land,  although  surrounded  by 
slavery.  If  I  were  going  to  look  for  a  place  to 
be  immolated  upon  the  altar  of  slavery  I  should 
not  come  to  Chicago— [great  confusion  and  cries 
of  "order,"]  Well,  hear  my  point  then.  We 
are  not  instructed  to  vote  for  Edward  Bates. 
Such  a  resolution  was  presented  there  and  was 
instantly  voted  down.  [A  VOICE— You  are  not 
in  order.]  Well,  my  point  is  that  we  were  not 
instructed,  and  that  we  will  not  act  according 
to  the  recommendation  except  so  far  as  we 
please. 

Mr.  ARMOUR,  of  Maryland— I  will  present 
the  point  of  protestation  a  little  clearer  than  my 
aged  friend  hap  done.  (Cries  of  "  Call  the 

The  PRESIDENT— It  is  not  a  subject  of  de- 
bate. The  question  is,  shall  the  Convention  re- 
ceive the  eleven  votes  from  the  State  of  Mary- 
land for  Mr.  Bates?  and  this  must  be  decided 
without  debate.  (Voices— "  Call  the  roll, 
"hear  him,"  and  great  confusion.) 

Mr.  ARMOUR.— I  do  not  wish  to  debate  the 
point  I  wish  to  state  succinctly  and  clearly 
the  point  of  our  protest.  Have  I  leave?  (Cries 
of  "Yes"  and  "No.")  At  the  Convention 
which  assembled  at  Maryland,  a  resolution  was 
offered  instructing  the  delegates  of  the  State 
Maryland  to  vote  as  a  unit.  There  was  a  gen- 
eral feeling  against  that  resolution,  and  a  num- 


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ber  of  gentlemen  spoke  against  it,  and  I  had 
risen  to  protest  against  it  when  some  gentleman 
in  my  rear  moved  that  we  be  s'mply  "  recom- 
mended "  Not  one  man  in  that  Convention  con- 
sidered that  "recommend"  and  "instruct" 
were  synonymous  terms.  Not  one  of  us  consid- 
ered that  the  recommendation  was  equivalent  to 
an  instruction.  Therefore,  we  let  it  pass,  be- 
lieving then  and  now  that  we  were  free  to  cast 
our  votes  for  the  man  of  our  choice,  and  we 
now  claim  that  right  on  the  floor  of  the  Conven- 
tion. (Cries  of"  Good,"  and  applause  ) 

Mr.  R.  M.  CORWINE,  of  Ohio— One  of  the 
rules  adopted  yesterday  declares  that  the  Chair- 
man of  each  delegation  shall  oast  the  vote  of  his 
delegation. 

A  VOICE— No,  no!  it  says  he  shall  "  an- 
nouncn"  it. 

Mr.  COALE — We  will  vote  as  we  please  and 
we  wi'l  not  vote  any  other  way. 
The  Chair  then  stated  the  question. 
Mr.  FRANK   P.  BLAIR,  of  Missouri— I  rise 
to  a  point  of  order.     I  desire  to  know  whether 
this  Convention  is  to  be  governed  by  its  rules 
or  not?    I  call  the  attention  of  the  President  to 
the  rule  which  we  have    adopted,  and  under 
which  we  must  act,  unless  it  is  intended  now  to 
violate  it. 

The  CHAIR— The  Chair  is  aware  of  the  rule. 
The  rule  adopted  was  that  the  vote  of  each  State 
should  be  announced  by  its  chairman. 

A  VOICE— He  must,  but  announce  it  and  an- 
nounce it  truly. 

The  CHAIR— And  the  Chair  rules  that  he  is 
bound  to  receive  the  report  made  by  the  Chair- 
man of  the  delegation,  and  announces  it  to  the 
Convention  as  their  vote,  unless  it  is  rejected  by 
the  Convention ;  and  the  Chair,  not  wishing  to 
take  the  responsibility  of  settling  this  question, 
may  re'er  it  to  the  Convention,  and  the  Chair 
now  puts  the  quest  on  to  the  Convention :  Shall 
the  vote  announced  by  the  Chairman  be  receiv- 
ed by  the  Convention  as  the  vote  of  the  State  of 
Maryland? 

The  question  was  decided  in  the  negative. 
At  the  conclusion  of  the  voting,  which  occu- 
pied considerable  time,  the  result  was  announced 
by  the  Secretary  of  the  Convention  as  follows: 
For  WILLIAM  fl.  SEWARD,  of  New  York,  I73i 

For  ABRAHAM  LINCOLN,  of  Illinois, 102 

For  EDWARD  BATES,  of  Missouri, 48 

For  SIMON  CAMERON,  of  Pennsylvania,. . .  50i 

For  JOHN  MCLEAN,  of  Ohio, 12 

For  SALMON  f .  CHASE,  of  Ohio, 49 

For  BENJAMIN  F.  WADE,  of  Ohio, 3 

For  WILLIAM  L.  DAYTON,  of  New  Jersey,    14 
For  JOHN  M.  REED,  of  Pennsylvania,  ....       1 

For  J  ACOB  COLLAMER,  of  Vermont, 10 

For  CHARLES  SUMMER,  of  Massachusetts,.       1 

For  JOHN  C.  FREMONT,  of  California, 1 

Who'e  number  of  votes  cast,  465;  necessary 
to  a  choice,  233. 

The  Chair  announced,  that  no  candidate  hav- 
ing received  a  majority  of  the  whole  number  of 
votes  cast,  the  Convention  would  proceed  to  a 
second  ballot. 

SECOND  BALLOT. 

Mr.  Caleb  B.  Smith  in  the  Chair,  the  ballot 
proceeded  as  follows : 


8      S 


Maine 10  6 

New  Hamp shire 1  » 

Vermont 10 

Jiaesuchusc-tts 22  4 

Rhode  Isiaud 8 

Connecticut 4 

New  Yor* 70  .. 


New  Jars'y 4  

Pennsylvania 2Ji  «8      ..        1       2J. 

Maryland 8  ..       8      ..      .. 

Delawa'e 6     .. 

Virginia. 8  14      ..        I      .. 

Kentucky ...  9     . 

Ohio..... 14      ..      .!       8 

Indiara 26      

M  ssonri 18 

Michigan 12  

Illinois 2J      

Texas 6 

Wi-consin 10  

I  wa       2  6     ....         J 

California 8  

Minnesota 8  «. 

Oregon 5 

TEEK1TOKIEB. 

Kansas 6  .. 

Nebraska 8  1 

IXstrict  of  Cclumbij.    2  . 


After  the  vote  was  taken,  and  before  it  was 
announced — 

Gov.  REBDER,  of  Penn.— I  desire  to  state, 
that  while  the  vote  was  going  on,  and  after  that 
vote  was  given,  the  name  of  oten.  Cameron  was 
withdrawn.  I  now  formally  withdraw  the  name 
of  Gen  Cameron  from  this  convention  as  a  can- 
didate for  nomination. 

(Great  confusion  while  the  ballot  was  being 
counted.) 

The  SECRETARY  announced  the  result  of 
the  second  ballot  as  follows: 

For  WILLIAM  H.  SEWARD,  of  New  York,  184i 
votes.  (Applause.) 

For  ABRAHAM  LINCOLN,  of  Illinois,  181  votes. 
(Tremendous  applause,  checked  by  the  Speak- 
er.) 

For  EDWARD  BATES,  of  Missouri,  85  votes. 

For  SIMON  CAMERON,  of  Pennsylvania,  2  votes. 

For  JOHN  MCLEAN,  of  Ohio,  8  votes. 

For  SALMON  P.  CHASE,  of  Ohio,  424  votes. 

For  WILLIAM  L.  DAYTON,  of  New  Jersey,  10 
votes. 

For  CASSITTS  M.  CLAY,  of  Kentucky,  2  votes. 

Whole  number  of  votes  cast  465;  necessary 
to  a  choice,  233. 

The  CHAIR  announced  that  no  candidate 
having  received  a  majority  of  all  the  votes 
cast,  there  was  no  nomination,  and  the  Conven- 
tion would  proceed  to  a  third  ballot,  which  was 
then  taken,  as  follows : 

THIRD  BALLOT, 


Maine 10 

New  Hampshire 1 

Vermont 

Massachusetts 18 

Khode  Island 1       ..         1 

Connecticut  ... 1         4         2 

New  York 70 

New  Jersey; 5 

Pennsylvania 

Maryland  ..  2 

De!aware 

Vir.inia 8 

Kentucky 6       ..         4 

Ohio 15 

Indiana 

MUouri 18 

Michigan 12 

Illinois 

Texas ...  fi 


Wisconsin 10 

Iowa..... 2 

Califorria 8 

Minnesota 8 

Oregon 1 

TEBBITOBIES. 

Kan'as  8 

Nebrask. 3 

Dist.  of  Columbia....  2 


Total 180       22       J4X  231X     511 

The  progress  of  the  ballot  was  watched  with 
most   intense  interest,  especially  toward  the 


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last,  the  crowd  becoming  silent  as  the  contest 
narrowed  down,  when,  before  the  result  was 
announced, 

MR.  CARTTER.  of  Ohio,  said— T  arise,  Mr. 
Chairman,  to  announce  the  change  of  four  votes 
of  Ohio  from  Mr.  Chase  to  Abraham  Lincoln. 

This  announcement,  giving  Mr.  Lincoln  a  ma- 
jority, was  greeted  by  the  audience  with  the 
most  enthusiastic  and  thundering  applause. 
The  en1  ire  crowd  rose  to  their  feet,  applauding 
rapturously,  the  ladies  waving  their  handker- 
chiefs, the  men  waving  and  throwing  up  their 
hats  by  thousands,  cheering  again  and  again* 
The  applause  was  renewed  and  repeated  for 
many  minutes.  At  last,  partial  silence  having 
been  restored,  with  many  gentlemen  striving  to 
get  the  floor, 

MR.  EVARTS,  of  New  York— Mr.  Chairman, 
has  the  vote  been  declared  ? 

The  CHAIR— No,  sir. 

MR.  ANDREW,  of  Massachusetts— Mr.  Chair- 
man, I  sought  an  opportunity  some  time  since, 
and  before  finishing  the  roll  call  of  the  States, 
at  the  direction  of  many  of  my  associates  of  the 
Massachusetts  delegation,  to  correct  their  vote, 
lam  instructed  to  report  that  the  vote  irom 
Massachusetts  stands  :  for  Abraham  Lincoln, 
18 ;  for  William  H.  Seward,  8.  [Applause.] 

MR.  McCRILLIS  of  Maine.— Mr.  Chairman, 
the  young  giant  of  the  west  has  become  of  age. 
He  is  21  years  old.  [Loud  cries  of  "order."J 
Maine  gives  her  vote  unanimously  in  favor  o' 
Lincoln.  [Renewed  applause.] 

MR.  REEDER,  of  Pennsylvania.— I  desire  to 
correct  the  vote  of  Pennsylvania.  In  the  haste 
of  taking  so  large  a  number  of  delegates,  it 
was  not  taken  as  they  desire,  and  they  wish  me 
to  announce  it  as,  for  Abraham  Lincoln  53;  for 
John  McLean  i;  for  Wm.  H.  Seward  i. 

MR.  ROLLINS,  of  New  Hampshire.— I  desire 
to  correct  the  vote  of  New  Hampshire.  New 
Hampshire  votes  for  Abraham  Lincoln  10  votes. 
[Applause.] 

MR.  EA.MES,  of  Rhode  Island.— Mr.  Chair- 
man, I  desire  now  to  announce  that  Rhode 
Island  casts  8  votes  for  Abraham  Lincoln. 

MR.  WELLES,  of  Connecticut.— Mr.  Chair- 
man,! am  requested  to  state  that  the  vote  of  Con- 
necticut is  8  tor  Abraham  Lincoln,  2  for  Salmon 
P.  Chase — the  rest  as  before  given. 

MR  CARTTER,  of  Ohio.— I  am  requested  by 
the  delegation  from  Ohio  to  now  present  their 
unanimous  vote  for  Abraham  Lincoln;  4S  votes. 
[Great  applause.] 

At  this  time  there  was  great  confusion.  A 
salute  was  fired  without,  and  responded  to 
within  the  wigwam  by  vociferous  cheers.  A 
life  size  photograph  of  Mr.  Lincoln  was  then 
brought  upon  the  platform,  and  the  audience 
greeted  the  sight  with  rapturous  and  long  con- 
tinued cheering. 

MR.  BROWN,  of  Missouri.— I  am  instructed 
to  cast  the  entire  vote  of  Missouri— 18  votes- 
tor  that  gallant  son  of  the  West,  Abraham 
Lincoln.  Great  enthusiasm. 

A  DELEGATE  from  Iowa.— I  am  authorized 
by  the  delegation  from  Iowa,  to  change  their 
vote,  and  make  it  unanimous  for  Lincoln.  [Ap- 
plause.] 

Mr.  GALLAGHER,  of  Kentucky.  Mr.  Presi- 
dent, Kentucky  came  here,  not  to  obtrude,  but 
to  sanction  the  expression  that  is  now  indicated, 


and  casts  a  full  vote  for   Abraham  Lincoln. 
[Loud  cheer?.] 

Mr.  NORTH,  of  Minnesota— I  am  author- 
ized by  the  delegation  from  Minnesota,  to  make 
it  unanimous  for  Abraham  Lincoln. 

A  DELEGATE  Irom  Virginia— The  delegation 
from  Virginia  ask  to  hare  their  full  vote  re- 
corded for  Abraham  Lincoln.  [Applause  ] 

Mr.  TRACY,  of  California — 1  am  directed  by 
the  delegation  of  California  to  change  five  votes 
in  favor  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  making  her  vote 
5  to  3. 

Mr.  FITCH,  of  Texas— I  am  authorized  by 
the  delegation  of  Texas  to  have  her  vote  record- 
ed for  Abraham  Lincoln. 

Mr.  WYSE,  of  the  District  of  Columbia— I  am 
authorized  to  change  the  vote  of  the  District  of 
Columbia  from  \Vm.  H.  Seward  to  Abraham. 
Lincoln,  of  Illinois. 

Mr.  WILDER,  of  Kansas—  I  am  authorized  by 
the  delegation  from  Kansas  to  change  her  vote 
to  the  gallant  disciple  of  the  "  irrepressible  con- 
flict,' Abraham  Lincoln. 

Mr.  WEBSTER,  of  Nebraska— Nebraska  casts 
her  unanimous  vote  for  Abraham  Lincoln. 

A  DELEGATE  from  Oregon— Oregon  also 
casts  her  unanimous  vote  for  Abraham  Lincoln. 

The  vote  was  then  announced  by  the  Secre- 
tary as  follows :  Whole  number  of  votes  cast 
466 ;  necessary  to  a  choice  234. 

For  ABRAHAM  LINCOLN,  ot  Illinois,  364  votes. 

The  CHAIR — Abraham  Lincoln,  of  Illinois, 
is  selected  as  your  candidate  for  President  of 
the  United  States.  [Thunders  of  applause  and 
great  confusion  ] 

Mr.  EVARTS,  Chairman  of  the  New  York 
delegation,  then  took  the  stand  and  said — 

Mr.  President,  and  gentlemen  of  ibe  National 
Republican  Convention:  The  State  of  New  York, 
by  a  full  delegation,  with  complete  unanimity 
of  purpose  at  home,  came  to  this  Convention 
and  presented  to  its  choice  one  of  its  citizens, 
who  had  served  the  State  from  boyhood  up, 
who  had  labored  for  and  loved  it.  We  came 
from  a  great  State,  with,  as  we  thought,  a 
great  Statesman  (prolonged  cheers),  and  our 
love  of  the  great  Republic  irom  which  we  are 
all  delegates,  the  great  American  Union,  and 
our  love  of  the  great  Republican  party  of  the 
Union,  and  our  love  of  our  Statesman  and  can- 
didate,  made  us  think  that  we  did  our  duty  to 
the  country  and  the  whole  country,  in  express- 
ing our  preference  and  love  for  him.  (Loud 
cheers  )  For,  gentlemen,  it  was  from  Gov.  Sevr- 
ard  that  most  of  us  learned  to  love  Republican 
princ'ples  and  the  Republican  party.  (Renew- 
ed cheers.)  His  fidelity  to  the  country,  the 
constitution  and  the  laws,  his  fidelity  to  the 
party  and  the  principle  that  the  majority  gov- 
ern, his  interest  in  the  advancement  of  our  par- 
ty to  Its  victory,  that  our  country  may  rise  to 
its  true  glory,  induces  me  to  assu  i  e  to  speak 
his  sentiments  as  I  do  indeed  the  opinions  of 
our  delegation,  when  I  move  you,  as  I  do  now, 
that  the  nomination  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  of 
Illinois,  as  the  Republican  candidate  for  the 
suffrages  of  the  whole  country  for  the  office  of 
Chief  Magistrate  of  the  American  Union,  be 
made  unanimous.  [Enthusiastic  cheers.] 

Several  speakers  then  attempted  to  get  the 
floor,  which  was  accorded  to  Mr.  ANDREW, 
Chairman  of  the  Massachusetts  delegation,    fle 
said: 
MR.   PRESIDENT,  GENTLEMEN  OF  THE   NATIONAL 

REPUBLICAN  CONVENTION  AND  FELLOW- CITIZENS- 

OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  OF  AMERICA  : — 

I  am  deputed  by  the  united  voice  of  the  Mas- 
sachusetts delegation  to  second  the  motion  just 
proposed  by  the  distinguished  citizen  of  New 


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York,  who  represents  the  delegation  of  that  no- 
ble State.  I  second  that  motion,  therefore,  in 
the  name  of  Massachusetts,  that  the  nomination 
of  Abraham  Lincoln  be  made  unanimous.  [Loud 
Cheers  ]  Gentlemen,  the  people  of  Massachu- 
setts hold  in  their  heart  of  bear's,  next  to  their 
reverence  and  love  for  the  Christian  faith,  their 
reverence  and  love  for  t.e  doctrine  of  equal  and 
impartial  liberty.  [Renewed  cheers.]  We  are 
.Republicans  by  a  hundred  thousand  majority  of 
the  old  stamp  of  the  Revolution.  [Cheers.]  We 
have  come  up  here— the  delegation  from  Massa- 
chusetts—from the  ground  where  on  Bunker's 
Hill  the  Yankees  of  Ne  w  England  met  the  deadly 
fire  oi  Britain.  We  have  come  from  Concord, 
where  was  spilled  tbe  first  blood  of  the  Revolu 
tion ;  from  Lexington,  where  its  embattled 
farmers  fired  a  shot  that  was  beard  around  the 
world.  We  have  come  from  Faneuil  Hall,  where 
spoke  thefpatriots  and  sages,  and  soldiers  of  the 
earliest  and  best  days  of  American  history, 
where  our  fathers  heard  propounded  those 
doctrines  and  principles  ot  liberty  and  human 
equality  which  found  their  enunciation  and  ex- 
position in  the  Constitution  of  Massachusetts, 
and  by  which,  under  judicial  decision,  human 
slavery  was  banished  from  the  venerable  soil  of 
that  ancient  Commonwealth,  before  the  Colo- 
nies were  a  united  people.  [Cheers.]  We  have 
come  from  the  shadows  of  the  old  South  Church, 
where  Amei  icau  liberty  was  baptized  in  the  wa- 
ters of  religion.  (Loud  applause.)  We  hold  the 
purpose  firm  and  strong,  as  we  have  through 
the  tedious  struggle  of  years  now  gone  by,  to 
rescue,  before  we  die,  the  holy  ark  of  American 
liberty  from  the  grasp  of  the  Philistines  who 
hold  it.  Ye?,  sir,  whether  in  the  majority, 
or  without  the  majority  of  the  American  people, 
there  we  stand.  (Enthusiastic  cheers )  Wheth- 
er in  victory,  or  in  defeat,  there  we  stand,  and, 
as  said  the  apostle,  "  having  done  all,  still 
there  we  will  stand,  and  because  of  our  love 
and  of  our  faith."  The  affection  of  our  hearts 
and  the  judgment  of  our  intellects  bound  our 
political  fortunes  to  William  Henry  Seward,  of 
New  York ;  (cheers,)  him,  who  is  the  bright- 
est and  most  shining  light  of  this  political  gen- 
eration; (applause  and  cheers,)  him,  who,  by 
the  unanimous  selection  of  the  foes  of  our 
cause  and  our  men,  has  for  years  been  the  de- 
termined standard-bearer  of  liberty,  William  II. 
Seward  [Loud  cheers  ]  Whether  in  the  Legis- 
lature of  his  native  State  of  New  York,  whether 
as  Governor  of  that  young  and  growing  impe- 
rial commonwealth,  whether  as.Senator  of  the 
United  States,  or  as  a  Tribune  of  tbe  people, 
ever  faithful,  ever  true.  [Cheers  ]  In  the 
thickest  and  the  hottest  of  every  battle  there 
waved  the  white  plume  of  the  gallant  leader  of 
New  York.  [Cheers.]  And,  gentlemen,  by  no 
hand  of  Massachusetts  was  it  !or  him  to  be 
stricken  down.  Dearly  as  we  love  triumph  we 
are  used  to  momentary  defeat,  because  we  are 
right ;  and  whatever  storms  assail  cur  ship  be- 
fore ;  in  whatever  gales  she  may  reeljand  quake, 
we  know  that  if  the  bark  sinks  it  is  but  to  an- 
other sea.  We  know  that  this  cause  of  ours  is 
bound  to  triumph,  and  that  the  American  peo- 
ple will,  one  day,  be  convinced,  if  not  in  1860, 
that  the  path  of  duty  and  patriotism  leads  iu 
the  direction  of  the  Republican  cause. 
It  was  not  for  us  to  strike  down 
William  Henry  Seward  of  New  York.  But 
Mr.  President  and  g«ntlemen,  as  we  love  the 
cause,  and  as  we  respect  pur  own  convictions, 
and  as  we  mean  to  be  faithful  to  the  only  or- 
ganization on  earth  which  is  in  the  van  of  the 
cause  of  freedom,  so  do  we,  with  entire  fidelity 
of  heart,  with  entire  concurrence  of  judgment 

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with  the  firmest  and  most  fixed  purpose  of  our 
will,  adopt  the  opinion  of  the  majority  of  the 
convention  of  delegates,  to  which  the  Ameri- 
can people  have  assigned  the  duty  of  selection; 
and  as  ABRAHAM  LINCOLN  of  Illinois  is  the 
choice  of  the  National  Republican  Convention, 
ABRAHAM  LINCOLN  is  at  this  moment  the  choice 
of  the  Republicans  of  Massachusetts  [enthusi- 
astic cheers.]  We  wheel  into  line  as  one  man, 
and  we  will  roll  up  our  100,000  majority,  and 
we  will  give  you  our  13  electoral  votes,  and  we 
will  show  you  that  the  "irrepressible  conflict" 
is  the  "  manifest  destiny  "  of  the  Democracy. 
[Cheers.]  The  Republican  party  is  to-day, 
gentlemen,  the  only  united  national  party  in 
America.  It  is  the  cause  of  liberty.  By  uni- 
versal concession,  it  is  the  cause  of  the  Union, 
as  it  is  the  only  party  in  the  nation  which 
stands  by  the  Union  and  holds  no  secessionist 
in  its  ranks.  Now,  since  the  result,  (if  it  may 
be  called  a  result)  is  known  of  the  Conven- 
tion at  Charleston,  the  Democratic  party  is  the 
only  secession  party  in  existence.  That 
Democracy,  which  with  proud  defiance,  has 
arrogated  constant  title  of  "  National,"  exists 
only  to-day  in  two  section?,  one  of  which  is 
absolutely  devoted  to  slavery,  and  the  other 
of  which  is  opposed  to  liberty.  [Loud  cheers 
and  laughter.]  Against  that  party,  Mr.  Presi- 
dent and  gentlemen,  and  against  all  those  who 
hold  its  dogmas,  or  preach  its  heresies,  with 
wuatever  associates,  and  under  whatever  lead, 
Massachusetts  comes  into  the  line,  and  under 
Abraham  Lincoln  of  Illinois,  we  are  bound 
to  march  with  you  to  victory.  [Tremendous 
cheers], 

Mr.  CARL  SCHURZ.  Mr.  President.  I  am 
commissioned  by  the  delegasion  of  Wisconsin 
to  second  the  motion  made  by  the  distinguished 
gentleman  from  New  York.  The  delegates  of 
Wiscansin  were  instructed  to  cast  their  votes 
unanimously  for  Wm.  H.  Seward,  and  it  is  un- 
necessary to  say  that  the  instructions  we  re- 
ceived added  but  solemn  obligations  to  the 
spontaneous  impulses  of  our  hearts.  [Great 
applause  ]  It  would  be  needless  to  say  any- 
thing of  Mr.  Seward  His  claims  stand  recorded 
in  the  annals  of  the  country,  and  they  are  re- 
ported in  the  hearts  of  the  people.  He  needs 
no  eulogy  here,  and  my  voice  can  add  nothing 
to  so  powerful  a  testimony.  We,  gentlemen, 
went  for  him  because  we  considered  him  fore- 
most among  tbe'best  and  to  whatever  may  be  said 
in  his  praise  I  will  add  but  one  thing.  I  know  I  am 
speaking  in  the  spirit  of  Mr.  Seward,  when  I  say 
that  this  ambition  will  be  satisfied  with  the  suc- 
cess of  the  cause  which  was  the  dream  of  his 
youth,  and  to  which  he  has  devoted  all  the  days 
of  his  manhood,  even  if  the  name  of  Wm.  H. 
Seward  should  remain  in  history,  an  instance  of 
the  highest  merit,  uncrowned  with  with  the 
highest  honor.  [Loud  Cneers.]  We  stood  by  Mr. 
Seward  to  the  last  and  I  tell  you  we  stand  by  him 
yet.  In  support  of  Abraham  Lincoln  of  Illin- 
ois. (Applause.)  With  the  platform  we  adopt- 
ed_  yesterday,  and  with  the  candidate  who  so 
fairly  repiesents  it,  as  Mr.  Lincoln  does,  we  defy 
all  the  passion  and  prejudice  that  may  be  in- 
voked against  us  by  our  opponents.  We  defy 
the  whole  slave  power  and  the  whole  vassalage 
of  hell.  (Cheers  unirersally  prevailing.)  Aje, 
and  let  them  bring  on  their  "Little  Giant,"  him.- 
S:lf.  (Applause.) 

Again,  do  we  stand  by  Mr.  Seward  as  we  did 
before,  for  we  know  that  he  will  be  at  the  head 
of  our  column,  joining  in  the  battle  cry  that 
unites  us  now,  "  Lincoln  and  Victory."  (Great 
applause.) 

Mr.  AUSTIN  BLAIR,  of  Michigan- Gentle^- 


men  of  the  Convention  :  Like  my  friend  who 
bas  just  taken  his  seat,  the  State  of  Michigan, 
from  first  to  last,  has  cast  her  rote  for  the  great 
Statesman  of  New  York.  She  has  nothing  to 
take  back.  She  has  not  sent  me  forwara  to 
worship  the  rising  sun,  hut  she  has  put  me  for- 
ward to  saj  that,  at  jour  behests  here  to-day, 
she  lays  down  her  first,  best  loved  candidate  to 
take  up  yours,  with  some  beating  of  the 
heart,  with  some  quivering  in  the  veins ;  (much 
applause)  but  she  does  not  fear  that  the  fame  of 
Seward  will  suffer,  for  she  knows  that  his  name 
is  a  portion  of  the  history  of  the  American 
Union ;  it  will  be  written,  and  read,  and 
beloved  long  after  the  temporary  excitement  of 
this  day  has  passed  away,  and  w'hen  Presidents 
themselves  are  forgotten  in  the  oblivion  which 
comes  over  all  temporal  things.  We  stand  by 
him  still.  We  have  followed  him  with  a  single 
eye  and  with  unwavering  faith  in  times  past. 
We  marshal  now  behind  him  in  the  grand  col- 
umn which  shall  go  out  to  battle  for  Abraham 
Lincoln  of  Illinois. 

Mark  you,  what  haa  obtained  to-day  will  ob- 
tain in  November  next.  Lincoln  will  be  elected 
by  the  people.  We  say  of  our  candidate,  God 
bless  his  magnanimous  soul.  [Tremendous  ap- 
plause.] I  promise  you  that  in  the  State  of 
Michigan,  which  I  have  the  honor  to  represent, 
where  the  Republican  party  from  the  days  of 
ita  organ'zation  to  this  hour,  never  suffered  a 
single  defeat,  we  will  give  yon  for  tbe  gallant 
son  of  Illinois,  and  glorious  standard  bearer  of 
the  West,  a  round  twenty-five  shousand  ma- 
jority. 

Mr.  EVARTS— I  hare  no  desire  to  cut  short 
any  speeches  of  a  general  character  that  are  de- 
sired to  be  made,  but  I  would  suggest  to  the 
convention  that  we  have  perhaps  given  a  liber- 
al share  of  our  time  to  this  enthusiasm  at  this 
stage  of  our  duty.  I  rise,  sir,  merely  to  make 
a  suggestion  and  a  motion  in  regard  to  the  sub- 
ject of  Vice  President  and  the  adjournment  of 
the  Convention.  Will  the  Convention  allow  me 
to  do  so  ? 

Mr.  JUDD — Illinois  desires  to  respond  by 
Mr.  Browning  for  a  few  moments. 

Mr.  EYARTS— I  did  not  exactly  understand 
the  nature  ot  my  friend's  suggestion,  but  I 
suppose  from  what  has  passed  between  him 
and  me  that  I  gather  his  purpose,  and  if  he  pro- 
poses to  do  it  now  before  I  make  my  business 
motions,  it  is  all  the  same  to  me.  [Voices — "go 
on."]  If  I  go  on,  he  can  have  an  opportunity 
to  say  what  ne  wishes  to  say  afterwards. 

Now,  Mr.  Chairman,  it  is  half  past  one 
o'clock,  and  I  think  we  require  as  much  time 
as  from  now  till  five  o'clock,  on  the  rise  of 
this  Convention.  I  would  suggest,  if  to  more 
desirable  or  rapid  plan  can  be  suggested,  that 
the  Chairman  of  each  delegation,  States  and 
Territories,  here  present,  meet  at  some  hour  in 
the  interval,  at  the  head  quarters  of  the  New 
York  delegation  at  the  Richmond  House.  la 
that  agreeable  and  convenient?  [Voices  — 
"agreed."]  I  would  suggest  then  that  they 
should  meet  at  that  place  as  early  as  three 
o'clock.  Is  that  suitable?  [Voices — "Yes," 
and  "  All  right."] 

Then  allow  me  to  say  to  my  own  delegation 
that  I  wish  they  would  meet  at  the  same  place, 
the  head  quarters  of  our  delegation,  at  the 
Richmond  House,  immediately  after  the  ad- 
journment of  the  Convention. 

I  shall  move,  sir,  now,  that  this  Convention 
adjourn  to  meet  at  five  o'clock,  and  that  the  bal- 
loting for  Vice  President  be  laid  over  during 
recess. 
Carried  nem.  con. 


Mr.  EVAK is—Now,' Mr.  Chairman,  allow  me 
to  say  that  I  have  been  in  error  or  out  of  order 
all  the  while,  and  >ou  with  me  also.  The  mo- 
tion that  I  made  that  the  nomination  be  made- 
unanimous  has  not  yet  been  put.  I  suppose 
tbe  observations  of  cay  friend  from  Illinois  are 
in  order. 

The  PRESIDENT— The  Chair  begs  leave  to- 
state  that  tbe  gentleman  has  not  been  out  of 
order.  Mr.  Browning,  of  Illinois,  will  now  take 
the  floor. 

ILLINOIS  RESPONDS, 

Mr.  BROWNING,  of  Illinois-Mr.  President 
apd  Gentlemen  of  the  Convention  :  On  behalf 
of  the  Illinois  delegation  I  have  been  requested 
to  make  some  proper  response  to  the  speeches 
that  we  have  heard  from  our  friends  of  the  oth- 
er States.  Illinois  ought  hardly  on  this  occasion 
to  be  expected  to  make  a  speech,  or  ba  called  up- 
on to  do  so.  We  are  so  much  elated  at  present 
that  we  are  scarcely  in  a  condi*k>n  to  collect 
owr  own  thoughts,  or  to  express  them  intelli- 
gently to  those  who  may  listen  to  us, 

I  desire  to  say,  gentlemen  of  the  Convention, 
that  in  tha  contest  through  which  we  have  just 
passed,  we  have  been  actuated  by  no  feeling  of 
hostility  to  the  illustrious  statesman  from  New 
York,  who  was  in  competition  with  our  own- 
loved  and  gallant  son.    We  were  actuated  sole- 
ly by  a  desire  for  the  certain  advancement  of 
Republicanism.    The  Republicans  of  Illinois, 
believing  that  the  principles  of  the  Republican 
party    are    the    same   principles    which    em- 
balmed   the    hearts    and    nerved    the    arms 
of     our    patriot    sires    of    the    Revolution  -7 
that  they  are  the  same  principles  which  were 
vindicated  upon  every  battle  field  of  American 
freedom,  were  actuated  solely  by  the  conviction 
that  the  triumph  of  these  principles  was  nec- 
essary not  only  to  the  salvation  of  our  party, 
but  to  tbe  perpetuation  of  the  free  institutions 
whose  blessings  we  now  enjoy,  and  we  have 
struggled  against  the  nomination  of  the  illus- 
trious Statesman  of  New  York,  sokly  because- 
we  believed  here  that  we  could  go  into  battle 
on  the  prairies  of  Illinois  with  more  hope  and 
more  prospect  of  success  under  the  leadership 
of  our  own  noble  son.    No   Republican  vho 
has  a  love  of  freedom  in  bis  heart,  and  who  has 
marked  the  coarse  of  Governor  S«ward  of  New 
York,  in  the  councils  of  our  nation,  who  has 
witnessed  the  many  occasions  upon  which  he 
has  risen  to  the  very  height  of  moral  sublimity 
in  his  conflicts  with  the  enemies  of  free  institu- 
tions, no  heart  that  has  the  love  of  freedom  in  it 
and  has  witnessed  these  great  conflicts  of  his.can 
do  otherwise  than  venerate  his  name  on  this  occa 
sion. I  desire  to  say  only, that  the  hearts  of  Illinois 
are  to-day  filled  with  emotions  of  gratification, 
for  which  they  have  no  utterance.    We  are  not 
more  overcome  by  the  triumph  of  our  noble  Lin- 
coln, loving  him  as  we  dor knowing  the  purity  of 
bis  past  life,  the  integrity  of  his  character,  and 
devotion  to  the  principles  of  our  party,  and  the 
gallantry  with    which  we    will   be  conducted 
through  this  contest,  than  we  are  by  the  mag- 
namity  of  our  triends  of  tbe  great  and  glorious- 
State  of  New  York  in  moving  to  make  this  nom- 
ination unanimous.    On  behalf  of  the  delega- 
tion from  Illinois,  for  the  Republican  party  of 
this  great  and  growing  prairie  State,  I  return  to 
all  our  friends,  New  York  included,  our  heart- 
felt thanks  and  gratitude  for  the  nomination  ot 
this  Convention.    [Applause.] 

The  Convention  then  adjourned  until  5  o'clock 
p.  m. 


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AFTERNOON  SESSION. 

The  Convention  re-assembled  and  was  called 
to  order  by  the  President  at  5  o'clock. 

The  CHAIR  announced  that  the  first  business 
in  order  was  to  proceed  to  ballot  for  a  candi- 
date for  Vice  President  of  the  United  States. 

Mr.  WILDER,  of  Kansas— Mr.  Chairman,  in 
behalf  of  the  Kansas  delegation,  I  am  commis- 
sioned to  nominate  John  Uickman,  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, as  the  candidate  of  the  Republican  party 
for  the  office  of  Vice  President  of  the  United 
States.  [Loud  and  prolonged  applause.! 

Mr.  CARTTER,  of  Ohio— I  will  present  the 
oame  of  Senator  Hannibal  Hamlin  of  Maine. 
[Great  cheering.] 

Mr.  LEWIS,  of  Pe  insylvania— I  second  the 
nomination  of  John  Hickman  of  Pennsylvania. 

Mr.  BOUTWELL,  of  Mass.  Mr.  President. 
In  behalf  of  a  large  majority  of  the  delegation 
from  Massachusetts,  and  in  behalf,  I  believe,  of 
a  great  majority  of  the  people  of  that  Common- 
wealth, and  New  England,  I  present  the  name 
of  the  iron  man  of  Massachusetts,  Nathaniel  P. 
Banks.  (Loud  applause). 

Mr.  CALEB  B.  SMITH,  of  Indiana.    In  be 
half  of  a  large  number  of  the  Indiana  delega- 
tion, I  present  the  name  of  the  gallant  son  of 
Kentucky,    Casius     M.    Clay.     (Enthusiastic 
cheers.) 

A  DELEGATE  atthe  north  end  of  the  plat- 
form. With  all  my  heart  I  second  the  nomina- 
tion of  Cash.  Clay. 

Mr.  LOWRY,  of  Penn.  Mr.  Chairman.  I 
nominate  Andrew  H.  Reeder  of  Pennsylvania, 
<Jovernor  of  Kansas  [loud  applause.] 

The  Convention  then  proceeded  to  ballot  as 
follows , 

FIRST   BALLOT  FOR  VICE  PRESIDENT. 


1 

1      1 

?f 

tf 

£lrf    "5     § 
•      ^    f    s- 
i     5    .8    § 

EHA.TE&. 

s 

: 

' 

!    !  i    i 

- 

:|:I 

Maine  

16 

New  Hampshire. 

10 

Vermont  

in 

Massachusetts... 

SO       1 

1 

i 

8 

•Connecticut  

« 

1    . 

* 

6 

>.ewYork  

(I 

4        3 

11 

3* 

'i  *s  ::  :: 

New  Jersey..... 

1 

7 

A 

Pcnnsylvatila.... 
Maryland  

2 

2X24 

7 

11 

8 

..      ..       8      . 

t 

1 

1 

Virginia  

Kentucky.... 

H 

Ohio  

46 

Indiana  

IS 

8 

Missouri  

9      .. 

9 

Michigan  

4 

ft 

Illinois  

1 

14 

S 

3 

.. 

Tfxas  

6 

i 

I 

Iowa  

1       1 

fi 

California  ... 

8 

1 

1 

j 

•Oregon  

1     .. 

,1 

t 

Territories, 

fi 

Nebraska  

1 

5 

Dis.  Columbia... 

1 

Total 101K  38H  51     68    194       1       8       3       6 

The  CHAIR  (the  result  having  been  an- 
p.ounced) — No  one  having  received  a  majority, 
the  roll  will  be  called  again  for  a  second  ballot. 

THE    SECOND    BALLOT. 

The  Convention  then  proceeded  to  a  second 
ballot,  which  resulted  as  follows : 


Ha"  Ita.    Clay.    Hickman. 

Main" l« 

NewHawpsnire 10 

Vermont 10 

Massachusetts 26 

Rhode  Island 8 

Connecticut 10 

New  If  Of  k 70 

New  Jersey 14      '       .. 

Ppnnsvlvania 64 

MaryUnl 10  1 

1  >ela ware 6 

Virgin'* 98 

Kentucky 88 

Ohio 46 

Indiana 12  14 

Vigour! i*  t 

Mich  gab 8  4 

Illinois 20  2 

Texas 6 


Wisconsin 6 

Iowa 8 

Cali'ornla 7 

Minnesota T 

Oregon 3 

TERBITOBIES, 

Ki  lisas 2 

J^ebra^ka 

Dist.  Columbia. 3 


Total, 


.857 


WITHDRAWALS,   ETC. 

Mr.  ANDREW,  of  Massachusetts— The  State 
of  Massachusetts  withdraws  her  vot9  for  Mr. 
Nathaniel  P.  Banks,  and  casts  her  vote  for  Mr. 
Hamlin. 

Mr.  KELLY,  of  Pennsylvania— I  rise  for  the 
purpose  of  withdrawing  the  name  ot  A.  H. 
Reeder  ot  Pennsylvania. 


Tee  CHAIR— We  have  a  dispatch  from  De- 
troit, which  I  wish  to  read  : 
To  the  Republican  Convention  assembled  in  tke 
Republican  Wigwam  at  Chicago,  greeting  : 

One  hundred  guns  are  now  being  fired  in 
honor  of  the  nomination  of  Lincoln.  [Immense 
a  j>'ause.] 

THE   EESTJLT. 

The  PRESIDENT— The  result  of  the  last 
ballot,  gentlemen,  I  will  now  announce.  There 
were  cast  466  votes  ;  234  are  necessary  for  a 
choice.  Hannibal  Hamlin  of  Maine  has  received 
357  votes,  and  is  nominated  as  the  candidate  of 
the  Republican  party  for  Vice  President. 

Mr.  BLAKEY  of  Kentucky— In  behalf  of  the 
friends  of  that  gallant  son  of  freedom,  Cassius 
M.  Clay,  I  move  that  the  nomination  of  Hanni- 
bal Hamlin  of  Maine,  be  made  unanimous,  and 
in  retiring  from  this  Convention  at  its  close, 
allow  me  to  return  to  those  who  have  honored 
him  with  their  votes,  an  assurance  of  his  re- 
gards ;  assuring  them  at  the  same  time  that  in 
casting  their  votes  for  that  gallant  son,they  have 
voted  tor  a  man  whose  only  crime  has  been  that 
he  has  rolled  freedom  as  a  sweet  morsel  nnder 
his  tongue,  while  on  his  lips  liberty  has  loved 
to  linger.  [Great  applause.] 

Mr.  CURTIS  of  New  York— Three  cheers  for 
Cassius  M.  Clay.  • 

The  call  was  promptly  responded  to. 

The  CHAIR — It  has  been  moved  and  second- 
ed that  the  nomination  of  Mr.  Hamlin  be  made 
unanimous. 

Mr.  SMITH  of  Indiana— As  I  had  the  honor 
of  presenting  to  this  Convention  the  name  of 
Cassiua  M.  Clay  of  Kentucky,  as  a  candidate  for 
Vice  President  of  the  United  States,  I  deem  it 
proper  that  I  should  second  the  motiin  made 
by  the  gentleman  from  Kentucky,  to  make  the 
nomination  of  Mr.  Hamlin  unanimous. 

In  seconding  this  motion  I  beg  leave  to  state 
that  in  the  opinion  of  the  republicans  of  the 
State  which  I  in  part  represent,  there  is  no  one 


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of  the  many  distinguished  advocates  of  tbeRe-  . 
publican  party,  no  one  of  that  illustrious  band  ' 
who  are  contending  for  the  principle  of  free-  > 
dom,  who  is  more   endeared  to  tte  great  heart 
of  the   Republicans    of  this    country,   than  is 
Cassius  M.  Clay. 

It  is  a  very  easy  matter  for  us  who  live  upon 
soil  unstained  by  slavery;  whobrea'he  the  free 
air  ot  States  where  the  manacles  of  the  slave  are 
never  seen,  and  their  waitings  are  never  heard, 
to  advocate  the  principles  of  the  Republican 
party  ;  but,  gentlemen,  to  advocate  those  prin- 
ciples upon  the  soil  of  slavery  itself,  io  the  very 
face  and  shadows  of  their  altars  and  false  gods, 
requires  a  degree  of  moral  heroism  of  which 
but  few  of  us  can  boast. 

I  have  an  assurance  that  this  cause  will  tri- 
umph, and  that  the  flag  of  freedom  will  wave 
in  triumph  over  the  land.  [Loud  applause.] — 
Let  me  assure  you,  gentlemen,  when  that  cause 
shall  be  borne  aloft  in  triumph,  and  its  glorious 
folds  shall  be  expanded  to  the  wings  of  heaven, 
you  will  see  inscribed  upon  its  brightest  folds 
in  characters  of  living  light,  the  name  of  Cassius 
M.  Clay.  [Great  applause.] 

We  have  now  completed  the  great  work  for 
which  we  assembled  here.  We  have  presented 
to  this  country  a  ticket  which  will  command  the 
love  and  admiration  of  Republicans  everywhere, 
and  the  respect  and  esteem  of  the  entire  coun- 
try. (Applause.)  In  leaving  this  fair  State, 
and  this  large  and  enthusiastic  assembly,  I 
shall  leave  it  with  an  abiding  confidence  that 
that  ticket  will  be  triumphant ;  for  let  me  assure 
you  that,  with  the  gallant  son  of  Illinois  as  our 
standard-bearer;  with  the  platform  which  we 
hare  adopted ;  with  the  distinguished  Senator 
from  Maine  as  the  second  in  command,  I  feel 
that  we  stand  upon  a  rock,  and  the  gates  of  hell 
shall  not  prevail  against  it. 

In  behalf  of  my  friends  of  Indiana,  I  would 
say  that  any  efforts  which  we  have  made  to  se- 
cure the  nomination  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  of  Il- 
linois, we  have  been  animated  by  no  feeling  of 
animosity  toward  the  distinguished  son  of  New 
York,  for  in  no  single  State  of  the  Union  is  the 
name  of  William  H.  Seward  more  highly  honor- 
ed than  in  Indiana.  (Applause.)  We  would 
not,  if  we  could,  pluck  one  le-f  from  the  laurel 
that  adorns  his  brow ;  we  would  not  tarnish 
one  letter  in  the  history  which  will  render 
his  name  illustrious  in  all  coming  time. 
It  is  not  that  we  have  loved  Seward  less,  but 
because  we  have  loved  the  great  Republican 
cause  more. 

Thirty  years  ago  on  the  Southern  frontier  of 
Indiana  might  have  been  seen  a  humble,  rag- 
ged boy,  bare  footed,  driving  his  oxen  through 
the  hills,  and  he  has  elevated  himself  to 
the  pinnacle  which  has  now  presented  him  as 
the  candidate  of  this  convention.  It  is  an 
illustration  of  that  spirit  of  enterprise  which 
characterizes  the  west,  and  every  western  heart 
will  throb  jvith  joy  when  the  name  of  Lincoln 
shall  be  presented  to  them  as  the  candidate  of 
the  Republican  party.  [Great  and  long  con- 
tinued applause.] 

In  conclusion  I  assure  you  that  the  Repub- 
lican flag  will  wave  in  triumph  upon  the  soil 
of  Indiana. 

Mr.  McCRILLTS,  of  Maine— Mr.  President 
and  Gentlemen  of  the  Convention  :  1  will  de- 
tain you  but  a  single  moment.  I  wish  in  the 
first  place  to  make  an  acknowledgment  in  be- 
halt  of  the  people  of  Maine,  for  the  honor  that 
this  Convention  has  conferred  upon  them  by 
selecting  one  of  her  distinguished  sons 
for  the  candidate  for  the  office  of  Vice 
President  of  the  United  States.  Mr.  Presi- 


dent, the  people  of  Maine  were  the  ardent 
admirers  and  friends  of  William  H.  Seward, 
[applause  and  cheers.]  They  believed  that  the 
candidate  which  this  Convention  would  nomi- 
nate would  surely  b<  the  next  President  of  these 
United  States,  and  they  charged  their  delega- 
tion that  above  all  things  they  should  select  a 
man  loyal  to  the  spirit  of  human  liberty — loyal 
to  the  spirit  ot  free  government,  loyal  to  the 
principles  upon  which  our  fathers  laid  deep  the 
foundations  of  this  great  empire — loyal  to  the 
Constitution  and  loyal  to  the  Union  of  these 
States.  And  Mr.  Chairman,  they  believe  that 
in  the  person  of  Wm.  H.  Seward,  the  great 
Senator  of  New  York,  all  these  great  qualities 
were  combined  in  addition  to  his  eminent  and 
distinguished  services  to  the  Republican  cause, 
and  his  exalted  statesmanship.  [Loud  cheers.] 
Mr  President,  and  gentlemen  of  toe  Conven- 
tion, however  earnest  we  may  have  been  in 
pressing  the  claimsof  our  particular  candidates, 
when  the  President  of  the  Convention  an- 
nounced the  result,  all  partizan  feelings  and 
differences  subsided  and  we  stood  together  as  a 
band  of  brethren,  as  a  united  phalanx.  And 
when  the  electric  spark  shall  convey  the  intel- 
ligence ofthe  nomination  to  the  remotest  por- 
tions of  this  R"public,  every  Republican  will 
stand  by  his  fellow,  forming  a  united  phalanx 
and  elect  the  nominee.  Illinois  and  Maine  are 
not  only  sisters  in  the  great  family  of  States, 
they  are  not  only  sisters  under  the  Constitu- 
tion— sisters  in  law,  but  they  are  by  kindred 
and  by  blood.  Of  the  people  of  New  England 
thousands  upon  thousands  are  our  brethren 
and  sisters  who  have  emigrated  to  Illinois 
and  are  scattered  throughout  the  great 
West.  And  here,  sir,  they  are  among 
the  living,  and  here  their  bones  repose  among 
the  dead.  In  1856,  the  man  who  is  now  your 
candidate  for  the  Vice  Presidency  ot  the  United 
States,  resigned  his  seat  as  Chairman  of  the 
Committee  on  Commerce  in  the  United  States 
Senate,  and  was  nominated  for  Governor  ofthe 
State  of  Maine.  Maine  led  the  van  in  the  con- 
flict. In  September  of  that  year,  Maine  electri- 
fied the  nation  by  a  vote  of  20,000  majority. 
She  led  the  van  in  that  great  fight.  She  was 
the  Star  in  the  East — the  bright  Star  that  illumi- 
nated the  whole  Northern  horizon ;  she  was  the 
Star  of  Hope— like  the  Star  of  Bethlehem.  She 
came  over  and  stood  by  the  cause  of  freedo_m 
with  her  joung  and  gallant  leader.  Mr.  Chair- 
man, I  know  the  people  of  Maine  well.  1  know 
that  they  will  give  a  cordial  and  united  sup- 

Eprt  of  this  ticket.  I  know  that  from  every 
ill,  from  every  valley,  and  every  mountain — 
along  her  rivers — along  her  rock  bound  coast, 
the  nomination  of  Abraham  Lincoln  will  be 
hailed  with  one  spontaneous,  loud,  long  and 
continued  shout  of  enthusiasm  and  applause ; 
and  that  the  people  will  inscribe  on  her  banner, 
"  Lincoln  and  Hamlin — Union  and  Victory." 
[Tumultuous  applause."] 

The  motion  to  make  the  nomination  of  Mr. 
Ilamlin  unanimous  was  then  put  to  vote,  and 
carried  with  the  greatest  enthusiasm. 
(Loud  cries  of  "  Corwin,"  "  Corwin." 
Mr.  CARTTERof  Ohio.  I  desire  to  make  an 
apology  for  my  collegue.  Mr.  Corwin  has  been 
very  frequently  called  for  in  this  assembly, 
with  the  view  of  dieting  a  response  from  him. 
He  is  now  bing  indisposed  upon  his  back  at  a 
private  residence  in  tkis  town,  and  he  requested 
me  to  make  this  apology  if  he  should  be  called 
upon ;  and  at  the  same  time  to  give  the  Repub- 
licans here  assembled  the  assurance  of  his  full 
approbation  of  what  has  transpired  here  ;  and 
the  further  assurance  of  his  labor  throughout 


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this  campaign.    (Appl&trse^nd  cries  of  "  good," 
'"good."  "Corwin  forever.") 

Mr.  TUCK,  of  New  Hampshire.  Mr.  Presi- 
•dent.  I  offer  the  following  resolution : 

Resolved,  That  the  President  of  this  Conven- 
tion, and  the  Chairmen  of  the  respective  dele 
•gations,  be  appointed  a  Committee  to  notify 
Abraham  Lincoln  of  IIlinois,and  Hannibal  Ham 
lin,  of  Maine  of  their  nomination  by  this  Con- 
ventian  as  the  candidates  of  the  Republican 
Party,  for  the  offices,  respectively,  of  President 
and  vice  President  of  the  Unitea  States. 

A  DELEGATE.  I  move  to  amend  by  in 
serting  the  word  "unanimous,"  before  "  nomi- 
iiation." 

The  amendment  was  accepted  and  the  resolu 
tion  adopted  unanimously. 

A  HESOLUTION. 

MR.  G1DDINGS.  of  Ohio— 5  offer  the  follow, 
ine  resolution ; 

Resolvtd,  That  we  deeply  sympathise  with 
those  men  who  have  been  driven,  some  from 
their  native  States  and  others  from  the  States 
of  their  adoption,  and  are  now  exiled  from  ttreir 
'homes  -on  account  of  their  opinions ;  and  we 
hold  the  Democratic  party  responsible  for  this 
gross  violation  of  that  clause  of  the  Constitu- 
tion winch  declares  that  the  citizens  of  each 
State  snail  be  entitled  to  all  the  privileges  and 
immunities  of  citizens  in  the  several  States. 

Resolution  adopted. 

MR.  LANE,  of  Indiana— '(Was  received  with 
many  cheers) — Freemen  of  the  United  States, 
you  have  to-day  inaugurated  a  grand  work. 
JJo  event  in  the  history  of  the  United  States, 
subsequent  to  the  Declaration  of  Independence, 
is  more  sublime  and  impressive  than  the  event 
which  has  this  day  been  inaugurated  in  this 
Vast  presence  -of  the  freemen  of  the  United 
States  of  America,  Into  your  hands  this  day 
is  placed  the  grand  responsibility  of  bearing 
the  torch  of  civilisation  in  the  vanguard  of 
freedom.  I  ask  you  to  bear  it  aloft  and  upward 
until  the  whole  world  shall  glow  with  the  light 
•of  our  illumination.  My  fellow  citkens,  tb« 
work  commenced  to  day  shall  go  on,  until  com- 
plete victory  shall  await  our  efforts  in  Novem- 
'ber. 

The  position  of  many  of  the  States  of  the 
"west  may  have  been  misunderstood.  We  re- 
regard  to-day  William  H,  Seward  as  the 
-grandest  representative  of  tbe  liberty -loving 
instincts  of  the  human  heart  who  exists  in  tbe 
United  States.  In  our  heart  of  hearts  we  love 
him,  and  would  make  him  President  to-day  if 
we  bad  the  power  so  to  do;  but  we  regard 
Abraham  Lincoln,  of  Illinois,  as  an  equally 
•orthodox  representative  of  republican  princi- 
ples, and  -a  most  beautiful  illustration  of  the 
power  of  free  institutions  and  the  doctrines  of 
Tree  labor  m  the  United  States. 

My  fellow-citizens,  it  is  not  my  purpose  at  this 
late  hour  farther  to  detain  you.  In  the  present 
•contest  is  involved  not  only  the  well  being,  but 
the  very  existence  of  the  government  under 
•which  we  live.  I  ask  you  by  your  action  to 
sternly  rebuke  the  dis»Rion  s'pirit  which  now 
disgraces  the  politics  of  the  United  States,  and 
to  burn  hissing  hot  into  the  brazen  front  of 
southern  democracy  the  brand  of  disunion,  as 
'God  marked  Cain,  the  first  murderer.  [Great 
>mpplaus«.T 

My  Fellow  Citkens,  I  find  myself  unable  af- 
ter the  eloquent  responses  to  which  you  have 
listened  this  day,  to  express-  to  you  the  senti- 
ments which  are  in  my  heart.  Massachusetts 
'has  responded  to  this  nomination  ;  old  Faneuil 
>Hall,  where  the  Revolution  was  born,  and 


where  the  power  of  British  supremacy  was 
made  to  rock  and  reel  in  1769  has  responded  ; 
New  York,  the  Empire  State ;  the  noble  com- 
monwealth of  Kentucky ;  the  grand  Prairie 
State  of  Illinois;  and  Virginia,  the  Mother  of 
States,  have  responded.  We  shake  hands  and 
pledge  ourselves  to  labor  until  a  complete  tri- 
umph shall  await  our  efforts  in  November. 

My  Fellow  Citizens,  some  doubts  have  been 
expressed  in  reference  to  Indiana.  I  pled^ 
Indiana  by  ten  thousand  majority.  (Great  and 
enthiastic  applause.)  I  pledge  my  personal 
honor  for  the  redemption  of  that  State.  (Re- 
newed applause.) 

THE  NAT/TONAL  COMMITTEE. 

MT.  Smith,  of  Indiana—-!  move  that  tb« 
roll  be  called,  and  that  each  delegation  appoint 
a  member  of  the  National  Committee. 

The  roll  was  then  called  and  the  following 
gentlemen  selected-: 

Maine — Charles  J.  Gilman. 
New  Hampshire — George_  D.  Frogg. 
Vermont — Lawrence  Brainerd. 
Massachusetts — John  Z.  Goodrich. 
Rhode  Island — Thomas  G.  Turner. 
Connecticut — Gideon  Weles. 
New  York — Edwin  D.  Morgan. 
New  Jersey — Denning  Duer. 
Pennsylvania — Edward  McPherson. 
Maryland — James  F.  Wagner, 
Delaware— N.  B.  Smithers. 
Virginia — Alfred  Caldweli. 
Kentucky — Cassius  M.  City. 
Ohio — Thomas  Spooner. 
Indiana— Solomon  Meredith.. 
Missouri — Asa  S.  Jo-  es. 
Michigan — Austin  Blair. 
Illinois— Norman  B.  Judd. 
Texas — D.  Henderson, 
Wisconsin — Carl  Schure. 
Iowa— Andrew  J.  Stevens. 
California — D.  W.  Cheesman, 
Minnesota — John  McKusick. 
Oregon — W.  E.  Johnson. 
Kansas — Wm.  A.  Phillips. 
Nebraska— O,  H.  Irish. 
Dis.  Columbia — John  Gerhard. 

Mr.  GOODRICH,  of  Minn — I  am  requested 
to  state  to  this  Convention,  and  to  tbe  citizens 
and  strangers,  ladies  and  gentlemen  in  atten- 
dance, that  a  triumphal  procession  will  form  at 
the  head  of  Washington  street,  on  Michigan 
avenue,  at  8  o'clock  this  evening;  and  will 
march  tbence  to  Lake  street,  thence  down  to 
Dearborn  street,  down  Dearborn  street  to  Ran- 
dolph, up  Randolph  to  Franklin,  tbence  to  Lake 
street,  and  thence  to  this  Wigwam,  or  Taber- 
nacle, where  delegations,  cititens,  and  strangers 
are  invited  to  join  in  one  grand  ratification  of 
the  nominations  made  to-day.  [Applause.] 

A  DELEGATE -Mr.  President 

Mr.  GOODRICH— I  am  yet  charged  with  other 
matters.  Be  yet  patient.  I  desire  now  to  of- 
fer a  resolution  that  I  doubt  not  will  meet  the 
cordial  amen- [great  confusion,  and  mani- 
festations of  impatience  by  the  audience]— I 
don't  like  to  speak  against  the  noise — that  will 
meet  the  cordial  approbation  of  every  gentle- 
man in  this  Convention: 

Sfgolvtdffha.t  the  hospitality,  tast',  zeal,  and 
munificence  displayed  by  the  ladies  and  gen- 
tlemen of  the  city  of  Chicago,  in  ai  d  01  the 
tbe  great  Republican  cause,  challenges  the  ad- 
miration, and  deserves  the  hearty  thanks  of 
this  Convention,  and  of  the  party  throughout 
the  United  States.  (Great  applause.) 

The  resolution  was  adopted  unanimously. 


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Mr.  GOODRICH,  proceeding  without  having 
resumed  his  seat  — One  word  more,  Mr.  Presi- 

SEVER  AL  DELEGATES-Mr.  President— 

(The  audience  here  became  impatient,  and 
the  apeakers  voice  was  lost  in  the  tumult. 
Ciies  of,  "No  speech,"  "  Read  your  resolution, 
and  sit  down,"  &c.) 

Mr.  GOODRICH— A  little  more  silence.  (Up- 
rorions  and  derisive  laughter.)  I  have  been 
desired  to  say  that,  inasmuch  as  Minnesota  has 
not  yet  responded  to  the  nominations  that  have 
been  made  to-day,  and  inasmuch  as  she  stood 
up  to  the  last  moment  for  New  York's  favorite 
son  as  her  6rst  choice,  and  in  doing  that  she 
believed  she  was  doing  that  which  was  right; 
yet,  she  bows  to  the  will  of  the  majority ;  and  I 
am  prepared  to  say  that,  however  much  she  re- 
grets the  defeat  of  her  favorite  candidate,  the 
vote  of  Minnesota  at  the  polls  will  be  cast  for 
Abraham  Lincoln,  of  Illinois;  (applause;  "good, 
good,"(  "and  cheers;")  and  that,  though  the  del- 
egates here  labored  for  their  first  choice,  yet 
they  will  be  found  laboring  with  equal  zeal  and 
energy  for  the  nominee  of  this  Convention- 
One  word  more.  ("No,  no,"  "  dry  up.")  Ian 
not  in  the  habit  of  being  holloed  down,  even  by 
opponents,  and  certainly  not  by  friends,  and 
the  friends  of  the  cause  that  I  claim  to  be  an 
humble  advocate  of. 

A  VOICE— If  you  are  our  friend  let  us  ad- 
journ. [Laughter.] 

MR.  GOODRICH— The  representatives  from 
Minnesota  feel  that  a  seat  in  the  Presidential 
chair  would  not  add  one  jot  to  the  stature  of 
William  H.  Sewaid.  Of  alt  earthly  fame  has  he 
seen  the  vanity.  Lasting,  exalted  is  his  fame. 
Whenever  lofty  deeds — 

[The  audience  here  became  impatient  and  vo- 
ciferous in  their  calls  to  proceed  to  business  and 
the  speaker  could  proceed  no  further.] 

The  CHAIR— At  an  early  hour  in  the  session 
of  the  Convention,  two  communications  were 
received — respectful  communications  from  two 
railroad  corporations  offering  to  the  Conven- 
tion an  opportunity  for  a  visit  to  the  Mississippi 
on  the  Chicago  and  Rock  Island  and  Cbicago 
and  Galena  Railroads,  and  laid  on  the  table. 

EXCURSIONS  ACCEPTED. 

Mr.  MURPHY  of  Michigan— I  have  a  resolu 
tion  of  acceptance : 

Resolved,  That  the  invitation  of  the  officers  oj 
the  Chicago  and  Rock  Island  and  Chicago  and 
Galena  Union  Railroads,  for  an  excursion  over 
the  same  by  the  members  of  the  Convention 
be  accepted,  and  that  a  committee  of  three  be 
appointed  to  notify  Mr.  Talcott  and  Mr.  Farnum 
of  the  same. 

Resolution  adopted  and  the  following  com 
rnittee  appointed  :  Murphy  of  Michigan,  Jade 
of  Illinois,  and  Smith  of  Indiana. 

RATIO  OF   VOTING. 

Mr.  ASHLEY  of  Ohio— I  propose  for  adop 
tion  the  following  resolution,  in  order  to  avoid 
in  future  either  two  setts  of  delegates  or  the  in- 
equality of  representation  in  the  Convention. 

£-:80tved,  That  the  Republican  National  Com- 
mittee, appointed  by  this  Convention,  be  and 
they  are  hereby  instructed  to  prescribe  a  uni- 
form rule  that  shall  operate  equally  in  all  the 
States  and  Territories,  whereby  in  future  the 
wishes  and  preferences  of  the  electors  in  the 
Republican  organization  in  the  choice  of  dele- 
gates for  the  Presidency  and  Vice  Presidency 
may  be  fully  and  fairly  ascertained,  and  that 
the  basis  of  the  nominating  vote  be  fixed  as 
.near  as  may  be  in  proportion  to  the  number  of 


Republican  electors  found  to  reside,  at  the  last 
general  State.election  preceding  the  nomination, 
n  each  Congressional  District  throughout  the 
Jcion. 

Mr.  BENTON,  of  New  Hampshire— I  move 
hat  the  resolution  be  laid  on  the  table. 

Mr.  COGSWELL,  of  Massachusetts— I  move 
hat  the  resolution  be  referred  to  the  National 
Committee. 

Mr.  BEN  TON— My  resolution  has  precedence, 
moved  to  lay  it  on  the  table. 

Mr.  COGSWELL— I  withdraw  my  motion. 

Resolution  laid  on  the  table. 

Mr.  BRIGG3  of  Vermont  moved  that  the 
.banks  of  this  Convention  be  tendered  to  the 
tion.  George  Ashmun  of  Massachusetts  for  the 
admirable  manner  in  which  he  bad  presided 
iver  the  deliberations  of  the  Convention. 

The  motion  was  carried  unanimously. 

A  DELEGATE  moved  that  the  thanks  of  the 
Convention  be  tendered  to  the  Vice  Presidents 
and  Secretaries  for  the  able  manner  in  which 
they  had  discharged  their  daties. 

Col.  PINCKNEY  of  New  York— I  move  to 
amend  by  inserting  the  words  "  especially  the 
Reading  Secretary,"  (Mr.  Pratt  of  Indiana.) 

The  motion  was  unanimously  carried. 

Mr.  SARGENT  of  California  moved  that  the 
Convention  do  now  adjourn  sine  die,  with  nine 
cheers  for  the  platform  and  the  ticket.  Given.] 

THE   VALEDICTORY. 

The  PRESIDENT—  Gentlemen  of  the  Conven- 
tion— It  becomes  now  my  duty  to  put  to  you  the 
last  motion  which,  in  the  order  of  parliamen- 
tary law,  the  President  has  the  power  to  pro- 
pose. It  will  probably  be  the  last  proposition 
which  he  caa  ever  make  to  most  of  you  in  any 
Convention.  But  before  doing  it,  and  before 
making  a  single  other  remark,  I  beg  to  tender 
you  each  and  all  my  cordial  thanks  for  the  kind 
manner  in  which  you  have  sustained  me  in  the 
performance  of  the  duties  of  this  station.  I 
confess  to  you,  when  I  assumed  it,  I  did  it  with 
some  apprehension  that  I  might  not  be  able  to 
come  up  to  the  expectations  which  had  been 
formed.  It  was  a  bold  undertaking,  in  every 
respect,  and  I  know  that  I  could  not  have  ac- 
complished it  half  so  well  as  I  have  done,  but 
for  the  extreme  generosity  manifested  on  all 
sides  of  the  house.  There  was  a  solemn  pur- 
pose here  in  the  minds  and  in  the  hearts  of  not 
merely  the  Convention,  but  of  the  vast  assem- 
blage which  has  surrounded  us,  that  before  we 
separated  we  would  accomplish  the  high  duty. 
That  duty,  gentlemen,  we  have  accomplished. 
Your  sober  judgments,  your  calm  deliberations, 
after  a  comparison  and  discussion,  free,  frank, 
brotherly  and  patriotic,  have  arrived  at  a  con- 
clusion at  which  the  American  people  will  ar- 
rive. Every  symptom,  every  sign,  every  indi- 
cation accompanying  the  Convention  in  all  its 
stages  are  a  high  assurance  of  success,  and  I 
will  not  doubt,  and  none  of  us  do  doubt,  that  it 
will  be  a  glorious  success. 

Allow  me  to  say  of  the  nominee  that,  al- 
though it  may  be  of  no  consequense  to  the 
American  people  or  to  you,  they  are  both  per- 
sonally known  to  me.  It  was  my  good  fortune 
to  have  served  wiih  Mr.  Lincoln  in  the  Cotagress 
of  the  United  States,  and  I  rejoice  in  the  op- 
portunity to  say  that  there  was  never  elected 
to  the  House  of  Representatives  a  purer,  nor  a 
more  intelligent  and  loyal  Representative  than 
Abraham  Lincoln.  [Great  applause.]  The  con- 
test through  which  he  passed  during  the  last 
two  years  has  tried  him  as  by  fire,  and  in 
that  contest  in  which  we  are  about  to  go  for  him 
now  I  am  sure  that  there  is  not  one  man  in 


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this  country  that  will  be  compelled  to  hang  his 
head  for  anything  in  the  life  of  Abraham  Lin- 
coln. You  have  a  candidate  worthy  of  the 
cause ;  you  are  pledged  to  his  success ;  hu- 
manity is  pledged  to  his  success ;  the  cause  of 
free  government  is  pledged  to  his  success.  The 
decree  has  gone  forth  that  he  shall  succeed. 
[Tremendous  applause.] 

f  have  served" also  in  public  life  with  Hanni- 
bal Hamlin.  In  the  House  of  Representatives 
we  were  ranged  on  different  sides.  He  was  a 
firm  democrat  of  the  old  school,  while  I  was  as 
firmly,  and  perhaps  too  much  so,  a  copy  of  the 
Webster  school.  (Applause.)  But  as  is  known 
to  many  of  the  gentlemen  who  sit  here  before 
me  to-day,  there  was  always  a  sympathetic 
chord  between  him  and  me  upon  the  question 
that  has  brought  us  hereto  day.  (Great  ap- 
plause.) And  while  the  old  divisions  of  party 
have  crumbled  away,  and  the  force  of  circum- 
stances have  given  rise  to  new  issues,  it  is  not 
strange  ttiut  we  are  found  battling  together  in 


the  common  cause.  I  say  then,  gentlemen,  that 
you  have  got  a  ticket  worthy  of  the  cause,  and 
worthy  of  the  country. 

Now,  gentlemen,  that  we  have  completed  so 
well,  so  thoroughly,  the  great  work  wnich  the 
people  sent  us  here  to  do,  let  us  adjourn  to  our 
several  constituencies  ;  and,  thanks  be  to  God 
who  giveth  the  victory,  we  will  triumph.  [Ap- 
plause 1 

A  DELEGATE— Mr.  President,  may  I  sug- 
gest that  when  we  adjourn,  we  adjourn  to  meet 
at  the  White  House  on  the  4th  ot  March  next? 

Mr.  ASHMUN — No  other  motion  is  now  in 
order,  but  that  solemn  one  which  must  come 
to  us  all.  Is  it  your  pleasure  that  we  now  sep- 
arate f  As  many  as  are  in  favor  of  the  motion 
that  this  Convention  do  now  adjourn  sine  die 
say  aye. 

The  motion  prevailed,  and  the  Convention 
was  declared  by  the  President  adjourned  sine 
die. 


OFFICIAL 


ROLL    OF    THE    CONVENTION, 


The  following  is  the  Official  Roll  of  the  Delegates  admitted  to  seats  in  the  Convention. 
We  do  not  vouch  for  its  entire  accuracy,  but  we  believe  it  very  nearly,  if  not  quite  correct; 


PRESIDENT  5 

Hon.   GEO.  ASHMUN,  of  Massachusetts. 


VICE 

California, 

Connecticut, 

Delaware, 

Iowa, 

Illinois, 

Indiana, 

Kentucky, 

Maine, 

Maryland, 

Massachussets, 

Michigan, 

Minnesota, 

Missouri, 

New,'York, 

Netfr  Jersey, 

New  Hampshire, 

Ohio, 

Oregon, 

Pennsylvania, 

Rhode  Island, 

Texas, 

Vermont, 

Virginia, 

Wisconsin, 

Nebraska, 

Kansas, 

Dist.   Col, 


PRESIDENTS  : 

A.  A.   Sargent. 

C.  F.  Cleveland. 

John  C.  Clark. 

H.  P.  Scholte. 

David  Davis. 

John  Beard. 

W.  D.  Gallagher. 

Samuel  F.  Hersey. 

Wm.  L.  Marshall. 

Ensign  H.  Kellogg. 

Thomas  White  Ferry. 

Aaron  Goodrich. 

Henry  T.  Blow. 

Wm.  Curtis  Noyes. 

E.  Y.  Rogers. 

Wm.  Haile. 

Geo.  D.  Burgess. 

Joel  Burlingame. 

Thad.   Stevens. 

Rowland  G.  Hazard. 

Wm.  T.  Chandler. 

4Wm.  Hebord. 

II.  Crawford. 

Hans  Crocker. 

A.  S.  Paddock. 

W.  W.  Ross. 

Geo.  Harrington. 


California, 

Connecticut., 

Delaware, 


SECRETARIES. 

D.  J.  Staples. 

H.  H,  Starkweather. 

B.  J.  Hopkins. 


Iowa, 

lUinoit, 

Indiana, 

Kentucky, 

Maine, 

Maryland, 

Massachusetts, 

Michigan, 

Minnesota, 

Missouri, 

New  York. 

New  Jersey, 

New  Hampshire, 

Ohio, 

Oregon, 

Pennsylvania, 

Rhode  Island, 

Texas, 

Vermont, 

Wisconsin, 

Kansas, 

Nebraska^ 


William  B.  Allison 

0.  L.  Davis. 

Daniel  D.  Pratt. 

Stephen  J.  Howes. 

C.  A.  Wingv 

William  E.  Coale. 

Charles  0.  Rogers. 

W.  S.  Stoughton. 

D.  A.  Secombe. 

J.  K.  Kidd. 

Geo.  W.  Curtis. 

Edward  Brettle. 

Nathan  Hubbard. 

N.  J.  Beebe. 

Eli  Thayer. 

J.  B.  Sen-ill. 

R.  R.  Hazard,  Jr. 

Dunbir  Henderson. 

John  W.  Stewart. 

L.  F.  Frisby. 

John  A.  Martin. 

H.  P.  Hitchcock. 


DELEGATES. 

MAINE— EIGHT  VOTES. 

AT  LARGE. 

George  F.  Talbot,  of  Machias, 
Wm.  H.  McCrillis,  of  Bangor, 
John  L.  Stevens,  of  Augusta, 
Rjnsellaer  Cram,  of  Portland. 

DISTRICtS. 

1  Mark  F.  Wcntworth,  of  Kittery, 
Leonard  Andrews,  of  Biddeford, 

2  Charles  J.  Oilman,  of  Brunswick, 


Scward  DiU,  of  Phillips, 

5  Nathan  G.  Hichborn,  of  Stockton, 
George  W.  Lawrence,  of  Warren, 

4  C.  A.  Wing,  of  Winthrop, 

J.  S.  Baker,  of  Bath. 
>i  Samuel  F.  Hersey,  of  Bangor, 

Going  Hathorn,  of  Pittsfield. 
€  John  West,  of  Franklin, 

Washington  Long,  of  Fort  Fail-field. 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE— FIVE  VOTES. 

AT  LARGE, 

Hon.  Edward  H.  Rollins, 
Hon.  Aaron  H.  Cragin. 
Hon.  William  Haile. 
Hon.  Amos  Tuck. 

DELEGATES. 

1  Nathaniel  Hubbard. 
George  Matthewson. 

2  B.  F.  Martin, 
F.  H.  Morgan* 

8  Jacob  Benton. 
Jacob  C.  Beam 

VERMONT— FIVE  VOTES. 

AT  LARGE. 

E.  N.  Br5gs;s,  Brandon, 

Peter  T.  Washburn,  Woodstock. 

E.  D.  Mason,  Richmond. 

E.  C.  Redlngton,  St.  Johnsbury, 

DISTRICTS. 

1  John  W.  Stewart,  Middlebury, 
E.  B.  Burton,  Manchester. 

2  Hugh  H.  Henry,  Chester. 
Wm,  flebord,  Chelsea, 

3  Wm.  Ckpp,  St.  Albans. 
E.  B.  Sawyer,  Hyde  Park. 

MASSACHUSETTS— THIRTEEN  VOTES. 

AT  LARCE. 

John  A.  Andrew,  Boston, 
Ensign  H  Kellogg.  Pittsfield) 
George  S.  Boutwell,  Groton, 
Linus  B.  Comins,  Boston. 

DISTRICTS. 

1  Joseph  M.  Day,  Barnstable, 
Jonathan  Bourne,  Jr.,  New  Bedford, 

2  Robert  T.  Davis,  Fall  River, 
Seth  Webb,  Jr.,  Scituttte. 

8  Edward  L  Pierce,  Milton, 
William  Claflin,  Newton. 

4  Charles  0.  Rogers,  Boston, 
Josiah  Dunham,  Boston, 

6  Samuel  Hooper,  Boston, 

George  William  McLellan,  Cambridge 
8  Timothy  Davis,  Gloucester, 

Eben  F.  Stone,  Newburyport. 
V  <reorge  Cogswell,  Bradford, 

Timothy  Winn,  Woburn, 
B  Theodore  H.  Sweetser,  Lowell, 

John  S.  Keyes,  Concord. 
8  John  D.  Baldwin,  Worcester, 

Edward  B.  Bigclow,  Grafton, 


10  John  Wells.  Chicopee. 
Eraftus  Hopkins,  Northampton. 

11  John  H.  Coffin,  Great  Barrington, 
Matthew  D.  Field,  Southwick. 


RHODE  ISLAND— FOUR  VOTES, 

AT   LARGE. 

James  F.  Simmons,  U.  S.  Senate, 
Nathaniel  B,  Durfee,  Tiverton. 
Benedict  Lupham,  Centrevllle. 
W.  H.  S.  Bay  ley,  Bristol. 

DISTRICTS. 

1  Benjamin  T.  Eames,  Providence. 
Rowland  R.  Hazard,  Jr.,  Newport, 

2  Rowland  G.  Hazard,  Peacedale. 
Simon  Henry  Greene,  Phenix. 

CONNECTICUT— SIX  VOTES. 

AT    LARGE. 

Gideon  Welles,  Hartford, 
Eleafter  K.  Foster,  New  Haven. 
Chauncey  F.  Cleveland,  Hampton, 
Alexander  H.  Holley,  Salisbury. 

DISTRICTS. 

1  Samuel  Q.  Porter,  Unionville  P.  0, 
Leverett  E.  Pease,  Somers. 

2  Stephen  W.  Kellogg,  Waterbury» 
Arthur  B.  Calef,  Middletown. 

3  David  Gallup,  Plainfield. 
Henry  H.  Starkweather,  Norwich. 

4  Edgar  S.  Tweedy,  Danbury. 
George  H.  Noble,  New  Milford, 

NEW  YORK— THIRTY-FIVE  VOTES, 

AT  LAROE. 

Willinm  M.  Evarts,  New  York. 
Preston  King,  Ogdensburgh. 
John  L.  Schoolcraft,  Albany. 
Henry  R.  Selden,  Rochester. 

DISTRICTS. 

1  George  W.  Curtis,  New  York, 
Robert  L.  Meeks,  Jamaica,  L,  I, 

2  James  S.  T.  Stranahan,  Brooklyn, 
Henry  A.  Kent,  Brooklyn. 

8  John  A.  Kennedy,  New  York, 

John  A.  King,  Jamaica. 
4  Owen  W.  Brennan,  New  York, 

Robert  T.  Haws,  New  York. 
8  Thomas  Murphy,  50  Dey  St.,  New  York, 

Charles  M,  Briggs,  Williamsburg. 
6  Joseph  C.  Pinckney,  New  York. 

Marshall  B.  Blake,  do. 

?  Danic!  D.  Conover,  do* 

John  Keyserj  do. 

8  Wm.  Curtis  Noyes,  do, 
James  W.  Nye,                do. 

9  Edmund  J.  Porter,  New  Rochelle. 
John  G.  Miller,  Carmel,  Putnam  Co. 

10  Ambrose  S.  Murray,  Goshen,  Orange  Co. 
C.  V,  R.  Luddington,  Monticello,  Sullivan 

Co. 

11  Peter  Crispell,  Jn, 
Henry  Green. 

12  Albert  VanKleeck,Poughkeepsie,Dutchesa 

Co. 


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John  T.  Hogeboom,  Ghent. 
13  Jonathan  W.  Freeman. 

Gideon  Reynolds,  Troy. 
1-t  H.  H.  Van  Dyck,  Albany. 

Henry  A.  Brighara,  West  Troy. 
l.>  Edward  Dodd,  Argyle,  Washington  Co. 

Jas.  W.  Schenck,  Glensfalls,  Warren  Co. 

16  Orlando  Kellogg, 
Win.  Hedding. 

17  John  H.  Wooster,  Newport,  Herk  Co. 
A.  B.  James,  Ogdensburgh. 

18  Henry  Churchill,  Gloversville,  Fulton  Co. 
Thomas  R.  Horton,  Fultonville,  Montgom- 
ery Co. 

19  Horatio  N.  Buckley,  Delhi,  Del  Co. 
Samuel  J  Cooke. 

20  Palmer  V.  Kellogg,  Utica. 
Henry  H.  Fish,  Utica. 

21  Giles  W.  Hotchkiss,  Binghamton. 
Benj    S.  Rexford,  Norwich. 

22  Samuel  F.  Case,  Fulton,  Oswego  Co. 
Robt.  Stewart,  Chittenango,  Madison  Co. 

23  Isaac  H.  Fiske,  Watertown,  Jefferson  Co. 
Hiram  Porter,  Louisville,  Lewis  Co. 

24  Vivus  W.  Smith,  Syracuse. 

D.  C.  Greenfield,  Baldwinsville. 

25  Alex.  B.  Williams,  Lyons. 
Theodore  M.  Pomeroy,  Auburn. 

26  Obadiah  B.  Latham,  Seneca  Falls. 
Charles  C.  Shepard,  Penn  Yan,  Yates  Co. 

27  Wm.  W.  Shepard,  Waverly,  Tiogo  Co. 

;  Geo.  W.  Schuyler,  Ithaca,  Tompkins  Co. 

28  Wm.  Scott,  Geneseo,  Livingston  Co. 
Stephen  T.  Hayt,  Corning,  Steuben  Co. 

29  D.  D.  S.  Browne,  Rochester. 
Alexander  Babcock,  Rochester. 

30  Joshua  H.  Darling,  Warsaw,  Wyoming  Co 
John  H.  Kimberly,  Batavia. 

31  Wm.  Keep,  Lockport. 
Noah  Davis,  Jr.,  Albion. 

32  Alexander  W.  Harvey,  Buffalo. 
Joseph  Candee,  do. 

33  Alonzo  Kent,  Ellicottville. 
Dolos  E.  Sill,  do. 


NEW  JERSEY— SEVEN  VOTES. 

AT  LARGE. 

James  T.  Sherman,  Trenton. 
Thomas  H.  Dudley,  Camden. 
Edward  Y.  Rogers,  Rahway. 
Ephraim  Marsh,  Jersey  City. 
F.  T.  Frelinghuysen,  Newark. 
Jonathan  Cook,  Trenton. 
Dudley  S.  Gregory,  Jersey  City. 
John  J.  Blair,  Blairtown. 

DISTRICTS. 

1  Providence  Ludlam,  Bridgeton, 
Robert  K.  Mattock,  Woodbury, 
Edward  Brettle,  Camden, 
Jonathan  D.  Ingham,  Salem. 

2  Archibald  R.  Pharo,  Tuckerton, 
Stephen  B.  Smith,  Penn'mgton, 
Amzi  C.  McLean,  Freehold, 
Bernard  Connolly,      do. 

3  A.  P.  Bethonde,  Washington,  Warren  Co. 
A.  N.  Voorhees,  Clinton, 

Wm.  D.  Waterman,  Janesville, 


Moses  F.  Webb,  New  Brunswick. 

4  Henry  M.  Low,  Paterson, 
Wm.  G.  Lathrop,  Boonton, 
Thomas  Gumming,  Hackensack, 
Henry  B.  Crosby,  Paterson. 

5  Hugh  H.  Bowne,  Rahway, 
H.  N.  Congar,  Newark, 
Marcus  L.  Ward,  Newark, 
Denning  Duer,  Weehawken. 


PENNSYLVANIA— TWENTY-SEVEN 
VOTES. 


David  Wilmot,  Towanda. 
Samuel  A.  Purviance,  Pittsburg. 
Thaddeus  Stevens,  Lancaster. 
John  H.  Ewing,  Washington. 
Henry  D.  Moore,  Philadelphia. 
Andrew  H.  Reeder,  Easton. 
Titian  J.  Coffey,  Pittsburg. 
Morrow  B.  Lowry,  Erie. 

DISTRICTS. 

1  John  M.  Butler,  Philadelphia. 
Elias  Ward,  do. 

J.  Money,  do. 

Wm.  Elliott,  do. 

2  Geo.  A.  Coffey,  do. 
Richard  Ellis,  do. 
Francis  Blackburn,  do. 
John  M.  Pomroy,  do. 

3  Wm.  B.  Mann,  do. 

James  M'Manus,  do. 

Benj.  H.  Brown,  do. 

George  Read,  do. 

4  A.  C.  Roberts,  do. 
Mm.  H.  Kern,               do. 
Wm.  D.  Kelly,  do. 
M.  S.  Buckley,  Richmond. 

5  James  Hooven,  Norristown. 
Dr.  C.  M.  Jackson,  Philadephia. 
William  B.  Thomas,  Philadelphia. 
George  W.  Pumroy,  Philadelphia. 

.  6  John  M.  Broomal,  Chester. 

Washington  Townsend,  West  Chester. 
Joseph  J.  Lewis,  West  Chester. 
Jacob  S.  Serrill,  Darby. 

7  Caleb  N.  Taylor,  Bristol. 
Joseph  Young,  Allen  Town. 
George  Beisel,  Allen  Town. 
Henry  J.  Saeger,  Allen  Town. 

8  Isaac  Eckert,  Redding. 
David  E.  Stout,  Redding. 
J.  Knabb,  Redding. 

J.  Bowman  Bell,  Redding. 

9  0.  J.  Dickey,  Lancaster. 
C.  S.  Kauffman,  Columbia. 
Samuel  Schoch,  Columbia. 
Jos.  D.  Pownall,  Christiana. 

10  G.  Dawson  Coleman,  Lebanon. 
Levi  Kline,  Lebanon. 

Jog.  Casey,  Harrisburg. 
Wm.  Cameron,  Louisburg. 

11  Robert  M.  Palmer,  Pottsville. 
Jacob  G.  Frick,  Pottsville. 

S.  A.  Bergstresser,  Elysburg. 
Wm.  C.  Lawson,  Milton. 

12  W.  W.  Ketchum,  Wilkesbarre. 


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P.  M.  Osterhouf,  Junkhannock. 
Frank  Stewart,  Berwick. 
Davis  Alton,  Carbondale. 

13  Chas.  Albright,  Mauch  Chunk. 
Wm.  Davis,  Stroudsburg. 

W.  H.  Armstrong,  Easton. 
Sam.  E.  Dimmick,  Honesdale. 

14  H.W.Tracy,  Standing  Stone,  Bradford  Co 
Hon.  Wm.  Jessup,  Montrose,  Susquehana 

Co. 

F.  E.  Smith,  Tioga  Point. 

Dr.  Abel  Humphreys,  Tioga  Point. 

15  Wm.  Butler,  Lewiston. 

B.  Rush  Peterkin,  Lockhaven. 
Lindsay  Mehaffey,  Newberry. 

G.  B.  Overton,  Coudersport. 

16  Kirk  Haines,  Millerstown. 
W.  B.  Irvin,  Mechanicsburg. 
Alex.  J.  Frey,  York. 

Jacob  S.  Haldeman,  New  Cumberland. 

17  Wm.  M'Clellan,  Chambersburg. 
D.  M'Caunaghy,  Gettysburg. 
John  J.  Patterson,  Academin. 
Francis  Jordan,  Bedford. 

18  A.  A.  Barker,  Ebensburg. 

S.  M.  Green,  Bailey's  Forge,   Huntington 

Co. 

L.  W.  Hall,  Altoona. 
Wm.  H.  Koons,  Sumerset. 

19  W  M  Stewart,  Indiana. 
Darwin  E  Phelps,  Kittaning. 
Addison  Leech,  Leechburg. 
D  W  Shryok,  Greersburg. 

20  Andrew  Stewart,  Uniontown. 
Smith  Fuller,  Uuiontown. 
Alex  Murdoch,  Washington. 
Wm  E  Gapen,  Waynesburg. 

21  Wm  H  Mersh,  Pittsburgh 
Col  James  A  Ekin,  Elizabeth 
John  F  Dravo,  McKeesport 

J  J  Siebeneck,  Pittsburgh 

22  D  N  White,  Sewickley 
Stephen  H  Guyer,  Alleghany  City 
John  N  Purviance,  Butler  Co 

W  L  Graham,  Butler  Co 

23  L  L  McGuffin,  New  Castle 
David  Craig,  New  Castle 
Wm  G  Brown,  Mercer 
John  Allison,  New  Brighton 

24  Henry  Souther,  Ridgway. 
S  P  Johnston,  Warren. 
Jas  S  Meyers,  Franklin. 
D.  C.  Gillaspie,  Brooklyn. 

25  B  B  Vincent,  Erie. 
Thomas  J  Devore,  Erie. 
J  C  Hays,  Meadville. 

S  Newton  Pettis,  Meadville. 


DELAWARE— THREE  VOTES. 


Nathaniel  B.  Smithers,  Dover. 
John  C.  Clark,  Delaware  City. 
Benjamin  C.  Hopkins,  Vernon. 
Lewes  Thompson,  Pleasant  Hill. 
Joihua,  T.  Heald,  Wilmington. 
Alfred  Short,  Milford. 


MARYLAND— EIGHT  VOTES. 


Francis  P.  Blair,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Wm.  L.  Marshall,  Baltimore. 

DISTRICTS. 

1  James  Bryan,  Cambridge. 

2  James  Jeffery,  Churchville. 
Wm.  P.  Ewing,  Elkton. 

3  Francis  S.  Corkran,  Baltimore, 
James  F.  Wagner,  Baltimore. 

4  Wm.  E.  Coale,  Baltimore. 

5  Chas.  Lee  Armour,  Frederick. 

6  Montgomery  Blair,  Washington,  D.  C. 
D.  S.  Oram,  Church  Creek. 


VIRGINIA— FIFTEEN  VOTES. 

AT  LARGK. 

Alfred  Caldwell,  Wheeling. 

E.  M.  Norton,  do. 

W.  W.  Gitt,  Montgomery  Co.  Court  House. 
J.  C.  Underwood,  Clark  Co.  " 

DISTRICTS. 

Jacob  Hornbrook,  Wheeling. 

1  J.  G.  Jacob,  Wellsburg. 
Joseph  Applegate,  Wellsburgh. 

2  A.  G.  Robinson,  Wheeling. 
R.  Crawford,  do. 

3  Thos.  Hornbrook,      do. 
J.  M.  Pumphrey,        do. 

4  R.  H.  Gray,  Lynchburg. 

F.  D.  Norton,  Wheeling. 

5  John  Underwood,  Prince  William  Court  H 
J.  B.  Brown,  Alexandria. 

6  W.  J.  Blackwood,  Clark  Co.  Court  House. 
J.  T.  Freeman,  Hancock  Court  House. 

7  A.  W.  Campbell,  Wheeling. 
D.  W.  Roberts,  Morgantown. 

8  W.  E.  Stevenson,  Parkersburg. 
S.  M.  Peterson,  do. 

S.  H.  Woodward,  Wheeling. 

9  James  Wilson,  do. 

OHIO— TWENTY-THREE  VOTES. 

AT   LARGE. 

Hon.  D.  K.  Cartter,  Cleveland. 
Hon.  V.  B.  Horton,  Pomeroy,  Meigs. 
Hon.  Thomas  Spooner,  Redding,  Hamilton. 
Hon.  Conrad  Broadbeck,  Dayton. 


1  Benj.  Eggleston,  Cincinnati. 
Fred  Hassaureck,        do 

2  R.  M.  Corwine,  do 
Joseph  H.  Barrett,      do 

3  Wm.  Beckett,  Hamilton. 
P.  P.  Lowe,  Dayton. 

4  G.  D.  Burgess,  Troy. 

John  E.  Cummings,  Sidney. 

5  David  Taylor,  Defiance. 
E.  Graham,  Perryburg. 

6  John  M.  Barrere,  New  Market. 
Reeder  W.  Clarke,  Batavia. 

7  Hon.  Thos.  Corwin,  Lebanon. 
A.  Hivling,  Xenia. 


8  W.  H.  West,  Bellefontame, 
Levi  Geiger.  Urbana. 

9  Earl  Bill,  Tiffin. 

D.  W.  Swigart,  Bucyrus. 

10  J.  V.  Robinson,  jr.,  Portsmouth. 
Milton  L.  Clark,  Chillicothe. 

11  N.  H.  Van  Yorhees,  Athens. 
A.  C.  Sands,  Zelaski. 

12  Willard  Warner,  Newark. 
Jonathan  Renick,  Circleville. 

13  John  J.  Gurley,  Mt.  Gilead. 
P.  ]ST.  Schuyler,  Norwalk. 

14  James  Monroe,  Oberlin. 
G.  U.  Harn,  Wooster. 

15  Hon.  Columbus  Delano,  Mt.  Yernon. 
R.  K.  Enos,  Millersburg. 

16  Daniel  Applegate,  Zanesville. 
Caltb  A.  Williams,  Chesterfield. 

17  C.  J.  Allbright,  Cambridge. 
Wm.  Wallace,  Martins'  Ferry, 

18  H.  Y.  Beebe,  Ravenna. 
Isaac  Steese,  Massilon. 

19  Robt.  F.  Paine,  Cleveland. 
R.  Hitchcock,  Painesville. 

21  Joshua  R.  Giddings,  Jefferson. 
Milton  Sutliffe,  Warren. 

20  Samuel  Stokely,  Steubenville. 
D.  Arter,  Carrollton. 


KENTUCKY— TWELVE  VOTES. 

AT  LARGE. 

Geo.  D.  Blakey,  Russellville. 
A.  A.  Burton,  Lancaster,  Girard  Co. 
Wm.  D.  Gallagher,  Pewee  Valley. 
Charles  Hendley,  Newport. 


1  Abner  Williams,  Covington. 
H.  G.  Otis,  Louisville. 

2  Fred  Frische,  Louisville. 

E.  H.  Harrison,  McKee,  Jackson  Co. 

3  Joseph  Glazebrook,  Glasgow. 
Jos.  W.  Calvert,  Bowling  Green. 

4  John  J.  Hawes,  Louisville. 

5  H.  D.  Hawes,  Louisville. 
Lewis  N.  Dembitz,  Louisville. 

6  Curtis  Knight,  Kingston. 

Joseph  Rawlings,  White  Hall,  Madison'Co 

7  A.  H.  Merriwether,  Louisville. 
Henry  D.  Hawes,  Louisville 

8  H.  B.  Broaddus,  Ashland,  Boyd  Co. 
L.  Marston,  Millersburg,  Madison  Co. 

9  Edgar  Needham,  Louisville. 
J.  S.  D.*vis. 

10  Jas.  R.  Whittemore,  Newport. 
Hamilton  Gumming:?,  Covington. 

INDIANA— THIRTEEN   VOTES. 

AT   LARGi. 

William  T.  Ott,  New  Albany. 
Daniel  D.  Pratt,  Logansport. 
Caleb  B.  Smith,  Indianapolis. 
P.  A  Hackelman,  Rushville. 

DISTRICTS. 

1  James  C.  Veatch,  Rockport. 
C.  M.  Allen,  Vincennes. 

2  Thos.  C.  Slaughter,  Corydon. 
J.  H.  Butler,  Salem. 


o  John  R.  Cravens,  Madison. 
A.  C.  Vorhies,  Bedford. 

4  Geo.  Holland,  Brookyille. 
J.  L.  Yater,  Versailes. 

5  Miles  Murphy,  Newcastle. 
Walter  March,  Muncie. 

6  S.  P.  Oyler,  Franklin. 
John  S.  Bobbs,  Indianapolis. 

7  Geo.  K.  Steele,  Rockvillc. 

D.  C.  Donohue,  Green  Castle. 

8  John  Beard,  Crawfordsville. 
J.  N.  Simms,  Frankfort. 

9  Chas  H.  Test,  Mudges  Station. 
D.  H.  Hopkins,  Crown  Point. 

10  Geo.  Moon,  Warsaw. 
Geo.  Emmerson,  Angola. 

1 1  Wm.  W.  Connor,  Noblesville. 
John  M.  Wallace,  Marion. 


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MICHIGAN— SIX  VOTES. 

AT  LARGE. 

Austin  Blair,  Jackson. 
Walton  W.  Murphy!  Jonesville. 
Thos.  White  Ferry,  Grand  Haven. 
J.  J.  St.  Clair,  Marquette. 

DISTRICTS. 

1  J.  G.  Peterson,  Detroit. 
Alex  D.  Crane,  Dexter. 

2  Jesse  G.  Beeson,  Dowagiac. 
William  L.  Stougbton,  Sturgis. 

3  Francis  Quinn,  Niles. 
Erastus  Hussey,  Battle  Creek. 

4  D.  C.  Buckland,  Pontiac. 

Michael  T.  C.  Plessner,  Saginaw  City. 

ILLINOIS— ELEVEN  VOTES. 

AT  LARGE. 

N.  B.  Judd,  Chicago, 
Gustavus  Koerner,  Belleville, 
David  Davis,  Bloomington, 
0.  H.  Browning,  Quincy. 
DISTRICTS. 

1  Jason  Marsh,  Rockford, 

Solon  Cummings,  Grand  de  Tour. 

2  George  Schneider,  Chicago, 

George  T.  Smith,  Fulton,  Whiteside  Co. 

3  B.  C.  Cook,  Ottawa, 
0.  L.  Davis,  Danville. 

4  Henry  Grove,  Peoria, 

E.  W.  Hazar^,  Galesbui-g, 

5  Win.  Ross,  Pittsfield, 
James  S.  Erwin,  Mt.  Sterling. 

6  S.  T.  Logan,  Springfield, 
N.  M.  Knapp,  Winchester. 

7  Thos.  A.  Marshall,  Charleston, 
Wm.  P.  Dole,  Paris. 

8  F.  S.  Rutherford,  Alton, 
D.  K.  Green,  Salem. 

9  James  C.  Sloo,  Shawneetown, 
D.  L.  Phillips,  Anna. 

WISCONSIN— FIVE  VOTES. 

AT   LARGE. 

Carl  Schurz,  Milwaukee 
Hans  Crocker,  Milwaukee. 
T.  B.  Stoddard,  La  Cics^e. 
John  P.  McGregor,  Milwaukee. 


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DISTRICTS. 

1  H.  ft.  Rann,  Whitewater. 
C.  C.  Sholes,  Kenosha. 

2  M.  S.  Gibson,  Hudson. 

J.  R.  Bennett,  Janesville. 

3  Elisha  Morrow,  Green  Bay. 

L.  F.  Frisbey,  West  Bend,  Wash.  Co. 


MINNESOTA— FOUR  TOTES. 

AT  LARGK. 

John  W.  North,  Northfield. 
D.  A.  Secombe,  St.  Anthony. 
Stephen  Miller,  St.  Cloud. 
S.  P.  Jones,  Rochester. 

DISTRICTS. 

1  A.  H.  Wagerner,  New  Ulm. 
Aaron  Goodrich,  S'.  Paul. 

2  John  McCusick,  Stillwater. 
Simeon  Smith,  Chatfield. 


IOWA— EIGHT  VOTES. 

AT   LARGE. 

Wm.  Penn  Clark,  Iowa  City. 
L.  C.  Noble,  West  Union. 
John  A.  Kasson,  Des  Moines. 
Henrv  O'Conner,  Muscatine. 
J.  F.  "Wilson,  Fairfield. 
J.  W.  Rankin,  Keokuk. 
M.  L.  McPherson,  Wintersett. 
C.  F.  Clarkson.  Metropolis. 
N.  J.  Rusch,  Davenport. 
II.  P.  Scholte,  Pella. 
John  Johns,  Fort  Dodge. 


1  Alvin  Saunder?,  Mount  Pleasant. 
J.  C.  Walker,  Fort  Madison. 

2  Jos.  Caldwell,  Ottumwa. 
M.  Baker,  Congdon. 

3  Benj.  Rector,  Sidney. 
Geo.  A.  Hawley,  Leon. 

4  H.  M.  Hoxie,  Bvs  Moines. 
Jacob  Butler,  Muscatine. 

5  Thos.  Seeley,  Guthrie  Centre. 
C.  C.  Nourse,  Des  Moines. 

6  Wm.  M.  Stone,  Knoxville. 
J.  B.  Grinnell,  Grinnell. 

7  Wm.  A.  Warren,  Bellevue. 
John  W.  Thompson,  Davenport. 

8  John  Shane,  Vinton. 
Wm.  Smyth,  Marion. 

9  Wm.  B.  Allison,  Dubuque. 
A.  F.  Brown,  Cedar  Falls. 

10  Reuben  Noble,  McGregor. 
E.  G.  Bowdoin,  Rockfurd. 

11  W.  P.  Hepburn,  Marshalltown. 
J.  J.  Brown,  Eldora. 


MISSOURI— NINE  VOTES. 

AT  LABGE. 

Francis  P.  Blair,  Jr.,  St.  Louis. 

B.  Gratz  Brown,  St.  Louis. 
F.  Muench,  Marthasville. 
J.  0.  Sitton,  Hermann. 

DISTRICTS. 
1  P.  L.  Foy,  St.  Louis. 

C.  L.  Bernays,  St.  Louis. 


2  A.  Krekle,  St.  Charles. 

A.  Hammer,  St.  Louis. 
8  N.  T.  Doane,  Tren'on. 

Asa  S.  Jones,  St.  Louis. 

4  H.  B.  Branch,  St.  Joseph. 

G.  W.  H.  Landon,  St.  Joseph. 

5  Jas.  B.  Gardenhire,  Jefferson  City. 

B.  Brans,  Jefferson  City. 

6  J.  K.  Kidd,  Linn. 

J.  M.  Richardson,  Springfield. 

7  Jas  Lindsay,  Ironton. 
Thos.  Fletcher,  DeSoto. 


CALIFORNIA— FOUR  VOTES. 


F.  P.  Tracy,  San  Francisco. 

A.  A.  Sargent,  Nevada. 

D.  W.  Chcesernan,  Orville. 

J.  C.  Hinckley,  Shasta. 

Chas.  Watroua,  San  Francisco. 

Sam.  Bell,  Mariposa. 

D.  J.  Staples,  Staples  Branch. 

J.  R.  McDonald,  Haywards. 


OREGON— FIVE  VOTES. 

Joel  Burlingame,  Scio,  Linn  Co.,   Oregon, 
Horace  Greeley,  New  York  City, 
Henry  Buckingham,  Salem,  Oregon, 
Eli  Thayer,  House  Rep's.,  Washington, 

D.  C., 
Frank  Johnson,  Oregon  City. 

TEXAS— SIX  VOTES. 


D.  C.  Hender?on,  Austin. 

G.  A.  Fitch,  Austin. 

James  P.  Scott,  San  Antonio. 

H.  A.  Shaw,  Little  Elm,  Denton  Co. 


1  Gilbert  Moyers,  Galveston. 

2  M.  S.  C.  Chandler,  Galveston. 


KANSAS. 

A.   C.  Wilder,  Leavenworth, 

John  A.  Martin,  Atchison, 

Wm.  A.  Phillips  Lawrence, 

W.  W.    Ross,  Topeka, 

A.  G.  Proctor,  Emporia, 

John  P.  Hatterschiedt,  Leavenworth. 

NEBRASKA.— SIX  VOTES. 

0.  W.  Irish,  Nebraska  City, 
S.  W.  Elbert,  Plattsmouth. 
E.  D.  Webster,  Omaha. 
John  R.  Meredith,  do. 
A.  S.  Paddock,  Fort  Calhoun. 
P.  W.  Witcbcock,  Omaha. 

DISTRICT  OF  COLUMBIA. 

1  Geo.  Harrington,  Washington, 
Joseph  Gethardt,  Washington, 
G.  A.   Hall,  Washington, 
J.  A.  Wyse,  Washington. 


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